1 Soul, a Savior thou art needing!
Soul, a Savior waits for thee!
Hear His words of tender pleading,
Hear His gracious "Come to Me."
Chorus:
He is calling, softly calling,
On thine ear His voice is falling;
He is calling, softly calling,
"Come to Me and be at rest."
2 He has died for thy transgression,
If thou wilt, thou canst be free;
Soul, He waits for thy confession,
"Savior, I will go to Thee." [Chorus]
3 Do not linger till the morrow,
Let thy loving answer be,
"Savior, in my joy or sorrow,
I will ever go to Thee." [Chorus]
Source: The Majestic Hymnal, number two #291
Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis.
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