Timeless Truths ‎#899

899. What Are You Sowing, Sinner?

1 What are you sowing, sinner,
Carelessly, heedlessly?
Scattering seeds of folly?
Sure will the reaping be.

Refrain:
Sowing and reaping, sowing and reaping,
Sowing and reaping, sad ’twill be;
Sowing and reaping, sowing and reaping,
Gath’ring the tares for eternity.

2 Sowing the seeds of malice,
Hatred, and bitterness,
Reaping with tears your harvest—
Sorrow and wretchedness. [Refrain]

3 Sowing of pride and passion,
Pleasure and revelry,
Reaping of wrath and torment
Through all eternity. [Refrain]

4 Sowing of sin, remember,
This shall your harvest be—
Banished from God and heaven,
Lost through eternity. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: What are you sowing, sinner
• Title: What Are You Sowing, Sinner?
• Author: Charles W. Naylor
• Author (refrain): B. E. W. (1911)
• Refrain First Line: Sowing and reaping, sowing and reaping
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.10.8.10.9
• Scripture:
  Galatians 6:7
• Topic: Sowing/Reaping
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/What_Are_You_Sowing_Sinner); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (387); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (143)

Tune Information

• Name: [What Are You Sowing, Sinner?]
• Composer: Barney E. Warren (1911)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.10.8.10.9
• Key: F Major
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/What_Are_You_Sowing_Sinner); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (387); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (143)