While we are praying for you,
Come, sinner, come!
Now is the time to own Him,
Come, sinner, come!
Now is the time to know Him,
Come, sinner, come!

"ONE MORE DAY'S WORK FOR JESUS."

The writer of this hymn was Miss Anna Warner, one of the well-known
"Wetherell Sisters," joint authors of _The Wide World_, _Queechy_, and a
numerous succession of healthful romances very popular in the middle and
later years of the last century. Her own pen name is "Amy Lothrop,"
under which she has published many religious poems, hymns and other
varieties of literary work. She was born in 1820, at Martlaer, West
Point, N.Y., where she still resides.

One more day's work for Jesus,
One less of life for me:
But heaven is nearer,
And Christ is dearer
Than yesterday to me.
His love and light
Fill all my soul tonight.

REFRAIN:--
One more day's work for Jesus, (_ter_)
One less of life for me.

The hymn has five stanzas all expressing the gentle fervor of an active
piety loving service:

_THE TUNE_

was composed by the Rev. Robert Lowry, and first published in _Bright
Jewels_.

THE GOSPEL HYMNS.

These popular religious songs have been criticised as "degenerate
psalmody" but those who so style them do not seem to consider the need
that made them.

The great majority of mankind can only be reached by missionary methods,
and in these art and culture do not play a conspicuous part. The
multitude could be supplied with technical preaching and technical music
for their religious wants, but they would not rise to the bait, whereas
nothing so soon kindles their better emotions or so surely appeals to
their better nature as even the humblest sympathetic hymn sung to a
simple and stirring tune. If the music is unclassical and the hymn crude
there is no critical audience to be offended.

The artless, almost colloquial, words "of a happily rhymed camp-meeting
lyric and the wood-notes wild" of a new melody meet a situation. Moral
and spiritual lapse makes it necessary at times for religion to put on
again her primitive raiment, and be "a voice crying in the wilderness."

Between the slums and the boulevards live the masses that shape the
generations, and make the state. They are wage-earners who never hear
the great composers nor have time to form fine musical and literary
tastes. The spiritual influences that really reach them are of a very
direct and simp