Hymns from the Four Winds ‎#88

88. The Call for Reapers

1 Far and near the fields are teeming
With the waves of ripened grain;
Far and near their gold is gleaming
O'er the sunny slope and plain.

Refrain:
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers!
Hear us, Lord, to you we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather,
Ere the harvest time pass by.

2 Send them forth with morn's first beaming,
Send them in the noontide's glare;
When the sun's last rays are gleaming,
Bid them gather ev'rywhere. [Refrain]

3 O you whom the Lord is sending,
Gather now the sheaves of gold;
Heav'nward then at evening wending,
You shall come with joy untold. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Far and near the fields are teeming
• Title: The Call for Reapers
• Author: J. O. Thompson (1885)
• Refrain First Line: Lord of harvest, send forth reapers!
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1983
• Scripture:
  Psalm 126
  ;
  Matthew 9:37
  ;
  John 9:4
• Topic: The Christian Life: Stewardship; Responses to God: Prayer; The Christian Life: Discipleship, Service, and Mission
• Copyright: Used by permission of the Korean Hymnal Committee

Tune Information

• Name: CHOO-SOO
• Composer: Woon Young Ra
• Incipit: 55117 1755
• Key: c minor
• Source: Korean
• Copyright: Used by permission of the Korean Hymnal Committee