Are You Counting the Cost?
Authors: Ina Duley Ogdon • Composers: B.D. Ackley • Meter: 11.8.11.8. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1915
Score (png): http://www.freehymnal.com/png/areyoucountingthecost.png.
1. Your Savior is calling from Calvary’s tree,
His sacrifice can you refuse?
Reject His salvation so precious and free,
Your hope of eternity lose?
Chorus:
Are you counting the cost, are you counting the cost?
When your Lord you refuse are you counting the cost?
Do you know without Jesus your soul will be lost?
When your Lord you refuse are you counting the cost?
2. How can you neglect His salvation so great?
His word standeth true evermore;
Come, enter the kingdom before it’s too late;
Come while there’s a wide-open door!
3. Why tarry to gather the treasures of earth
That shortly must crumble away?
Come, lay up the jewels of infinite worth,
That shine thro’ eternity’s day.
4. For what shall it profit you there, tho’ you gain
The wealth of the world as a whole?
O shall not your labor be worse than in vain,
If thereby you lose your own soul?