Alternate Title: âTis Almost Time for the Lord to Come
Words and Music by G.W. Sederquist
SDA Church Hymnal (1941) Hymn #182
SDA Church Hymnal (1985) Hymn #212
[Verse 1]
Tis almost time for the Lord to come,
I hear the people say,
The stars of heaven are growing dim,
It must be the breaking of the day.
[Chorus]
O it must be the breaking of the day,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
The night is almost gone,
The day is coming on,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
[Verse 2]
The signs foretold in the sun and moon,
In earth, and sea, and sky;
A - loud proclaim to the race of men,
That the coming of the Master draweth nigh.
[Chorus]
O it must be the breaking of the day,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
The night is almost gone,
The day is coming on,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
[Verse 3]
It must be time for the waiting church
To cast her pride a-way;
With girded loins and burning lamps,
To look for the breaking of the day.
[Chorus]
O it must be the breaking of the day,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
The night is almost gone,
The day is coming on,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
[Verse 4]
Go quickly out in the streets and lanes,
And in the broad highway,
And call the maimed, the halt and blind,
To be ready for the breaking of the day.
[Chorus]
O it must be the breaking of the day,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
The night is almost gone,
The day is coming on,
O it must be the breaking of the day.
