Softly And Tenderly

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Teach me to live that I may dread

The grave as little as my bed.

-       Bishop Thomas Ken, 1637-1711.

   Stephen Winsten has said that we die before we have learned to live.  Because man matures late in life, by the time we had learned from our mistakes and mastered our ‘portfolios’, it is too late.  Most of us thus probably spend our latter days in melancholic revisits to the past and reminiscences over 'what could have been'.  Whereas our errors (our sins and the many moral, social and financial indiscretions) leave us exhausted, grey and whithered, the dear but painful nostalgia from our fond memories (i.e. of childhood, establishing a home and raising a family) is much more lethal than that … it eventually and inevitably  ‘kills us dead’.

   The good news is … JESUS CHRIST! Softly and tenderly He’s still calling us … HOME.  HOME where the great Heavenly reunion of believers, friends and loved ones will fix all the melancholy and nostalgia ever produced on this beautiful but sad planet Earth, and where the love and grace of a loving Heavenly Father will redeem everybody’s tears and trouble forever.  Dear reader, do not allow the proud, self-sufficient atheist, atheist-evolutionist or skeptic to rob you of the eternal joys of the Saviour’s precious friendship; there is great reward in humility and faith. 

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Softly And Tenderly

(Will Lamartine Thompson, 1847-1909)

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,

Calling for you and for me.

See on the portals He’s waiting and watching,

Watching for you and for me.

Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,

Pleading for you and for me?

Why should we linger and heed not his mercies,

Mercies for you and for me!

Time now is fleeting, the moments are passing,

Passing from you and from me.

Shadows are gathering, death-beds are coming,

Coming for you and for me.

O for the wonderful love He has promised,

Promised for you and for me;

Tho we have sinned He has mercy and pardon,

Pardon for you and for me.

CHORUS

Come home, come home;

Ye who are weary come home.

Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling;

Calling, o sinner, come home.

Piet Stassen

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Bibliography

1.  Andrews, Allen (1969) Quotations For Speakers And Writers. Newnes Books. Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.

2.  Stanphill, Ira & Benson, John T. (1956) Heartwarming Songs No.1. ‘Softly And Tenderly’.  John T. Benson Publishing Co. Nashville, Tennessee.