Number: 218
English: Tune: HON 1951 #97 (S & S #772) {HON 1987 #152 (with key change)}
Title: Jesus Was Moved With Compassion
Name: 
Words: Sam Jones
Music: E. S. Ufford
Meter: 
Form: 

Je¤sus was moved with com¤pas¤sion one day,
See¤ing the peo¤ple, no shep¤herd had they,
Scat¤ter’d a¤broad and op¤press’d by the foe,
Wait¤ing for la¤bour¤ers, who to them would go.

Chorus:
Why stand ye i¤dle? Why stand ye i¤dle?
There is no time for de¤¤lay;
Speed with the mes¤sage, speed with the mes¤sage,
Tell them of Je¤sus to¤¤day.

Man¤y are drift¤ing to hope¤less de¤spair,
Lured on by Sa¤tan, held fast in his snare,
Blind¤ing their minds to the truth and the way,
As an¤gel of light he de¤ceives them to¤day.

Are you not moved as He speaks to your heart?
Why stand ye i¤dle, un¤will¤ing to start?
Go now and la¤bour; oh, how can you stay,
When souls to de¤struc¤tion are hast¤’ning a¤way?

Soon ’twill be o¤ver, your life’s day will close,
En¤ter the vine¤yard un¤heed¤ing the foes,
La¤bour for Je¤sus a¤mid all the strife,
Yield ¤Him true serv¤ice and save not your life.