Almost-But Lost by Kathrina B. Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

Almost—But Lost

By Kathrina B. Wilcox

Christian, have you long been waiting For the blessed Christ to come— Waiting, working, praying, watching, For your Lord to take you home?

Have you labored for the Master With a long and earnest zeal? Have you patiently responded To the love for Him you feel?

He delays now, waiting, yearning, For the souls He has not blessed, For the wild and wand'ring children Who have ne'er His love confessed.

While thus waiting, are you growing Cold and careless, worldly-wise? Are you just as anxious, earnest, As before, to gain the prize?

Are you lukewarm, brother, sister? Is your past all spent in vain? Will your years of earnest labor Prove but loss instead of gain?

Wake! arouse you! hear the summons, All are needed in the fray; Yes, arise! be up and doing, For the Master calls to-day.

Shall He say of you, O Christian, "Almost saved—but lost at last; Harvest's here, the summer's ended, And probation now is past"?

O, awake, before the Master Comes to bind the sheaves away; Rather hear from angel reapers, "Almost lost—but saved to-day."