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SDAH 358: Far and Near the Fields Are Teeming

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SDAH 358

Far and near the fields are teeming
with the sheaves of ripened grain;
Far and near their gold is gleaming
O’er the sunny slope and plain.

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1
Far and near the fields are teeming
with the sheaves of ripened grain;
Far and near their gold is gleaming
O’er the sunny slope and plain.

Refrain
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers!
Hear us Lord,to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather,
Ere the harvest-time pass by.

2
Send them forth with morn’s first beaming,
Send them in the noon-tides’s glare;
When the sun’s last rays are streaming,
bid them gather everywhere.

3
O thou, whom thy Lord is sending,
gather now the sheaves of gold;
Heavenward then at evening wending
Thou shalt come with joy untold.

Hymn Info
Hymn Info


Biblical Reference
(a) John 4:35 (b) Eccl 11:6 (c) Ps 126:5 (r) Matt 9:38

Author
J.O. Thompson

Year Published
1885

Hymn Tune
HARVEST

Metrical Number
8.7.8.7.Ref.

Composer
J.B.O. Clemm

Year Composed
1895

Hymn Score

Piano Accompaniment

Notes

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When Jesus was on earth and saw the great needs of the people, He told His disciples to make the sending out of workers a matter of prayer. This is the theme of the refrain of this hymn “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest” Matt. 9:37,38).

      The words were written in 1885 by J.O Thompson, and the tune HARVEST, so named because of the words, by J.B.O Clemm in 1895.  Nothing is known regarding either of these men. Titled “The Call for Reapers,” the first publication of the song was in the Methodist book The Epworth Hymnal, 1885.  The song first appeared in SDA hymnals in Christ in Song, 1908, and again in Church Hymnal, 1941.

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