Sowing the Seed of the Kingdom
Authors: P.H. • Composers: Fred A. Fillmore • Meter: 12.7.12.7. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png-shaped-note • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1888, 1896
Score (png-shaped-note): http://www.freehymnal.com/png/shape/sowingtheseedofthekingdom.png.
1. Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the Master’s field so fair?
Are you casting it forth with a full hand, brother,
In the strength of faith and prayer?
Refrain:
Oh, the spring so bright is passing by, (passing by,)
And the reaping-time will surely come; (surely come;)
Haste! the seed wide flinging,
Then at last come, bringing
Golden sheaves for the harvest-home.
2. Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the early morn so bright?
Are you sowing the seed as the day wears onward,
And approach the shades of night?
3. Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the heart of tender years?
Are you sowing the seed o’er the ground so stony,
Toiling on with prayers and tears?