<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421581" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Salvation Drawing Nearer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkness overspreads us here,<br>But the night wears fast away;<br>Jacob's star will soon appear,<br>Leading on eternal day!<br>Now 'tis time to rouse from sleep,<br>Trim our lamps and stand prepared;<br>For our Lord strict watch to keep,<br>Lest he find us off our guard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let his people courage take,<br>Bear with a submissive mind<br>All they suffer for his sake,<br>Rich amends they soon will find:<br>He will wipe away their tears,<br>Near himself appoint their lot;<br>All their sorrows, pains and fears,<br>Quickly then wilt be forgot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though already saved, by grace,<br>From the hour we first believed;<br>Yet while sin and war have place,<br>We have but a part received:<br>Still we for salvation wait,<br>Every hour it nearer comes!<br>Death will break the prison gate,<br>And admit us to our homes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sinners, what can you expect?<br>You who now the Saviour dare;<br>Break his laws, his grace reject,<br>You must stand before his bar!<br>Tremble, lest he say, Depart!<br>Oh the horrors of that sound!<br>Lord, make every careless heart,<br>Seek thee while thou may'st be found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421581" data-title="Salvation Drawing Nearer de John Newton" data-description="Darkness overspreads us here, But the night wears fast away; Jacob's star will soon appear, Leading on eternal day! Now 'tis time to rouse from sleep, Trim our lamps and stand prepared; For our Lord strict watch to keep, Lest he find us off our gu..."></div> </div> </div>

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