Bringing In The Sheaves

 

"Do you not say, It is still four months until harvest time comes!
Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and 
 see how they are already white for harvesting."
(John 4:35)

Country Church Under Fall Colors

(2014)

Picture courtesy of Jeff Folger

Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,

Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;

Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,

Fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze;

By and by the harvest, and the labor ended,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Going forth with weeping, sowing for the Master,

Though the loss sustained our spirit often grieves;

When our weeping's over, He will bid us welcome,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,

Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,

We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.

"Bringing In The Sheaves"
Knowles Shaw
(1834-1878)
American evangelist, writer and composer of Gospel hymns.
Known as "The Singing Evangelist".  Shaw died in a train wreck
in McKinney, Texas in which he had saved the life of another man.
  His reported last words were:
"It's a grand thing to rally people to the Cross of Christ."