Harvest Festival Hymn

Every month Sheer Joy Music have a section on their site called 'Hymn of the Month', and this month the hymn chosen is my hymn Harvest Time. You can download both the sheet music and the words, and also listen to a track of it being sung by Cantoris by clicking here.

These are the words to the hymn:

Harvest Time

The land is ripe for harvest,
Look upward for your Lord,
He’ll soon appear in glory,
As He promised in His Word.
He’s returning for the faithful.
For those who know Him true:
Make quite certain you are ready
When He calls out loud for you.
The land is ripe, the land is ripe,
The fields are white as new:
Hasten now to reap the crops,
For the labourers are but few.

We’re told it’s just a twinkling
Of an eye, it is so brief.
He’ll return in clouds of glory
For those with firm belief.
Yes, the land is ripe for harvest,
For the people to go home,
Yes, the land is ripe for harvest,
As He calls us for His own.
The land is ripe, the land is ripe,
The fields are white as new:
Hasten now to reap the crops,
For the labourers are but few.
© 2006 Colin Gordon-Farleigh