Hymn 461 - Throw Out the Life Line

Throw out the life line across the dark wave,

There is a brother whom someone should save; 

Somebody’s brother! Oh, who then will dare

To throw out the life line, his peril to share?

Throw out the life line with hand quick and strong:

Why do you tarry, why linger so long?

See! he is sinking; oh, hasten today-

And out with the life boat! away, then, away!

Throw out the life line to danger fraught men,

Sinking in anguish where you’ve never been:

Winds of temptation and billows of woe

Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow.

Soon will the season of rescue be o’er,

Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore,

Haste then, my brother, no time for delay,

But throw out the life line and save them today.

REFRAIN

Throw out the life line! Throw out the life line!

Someone is drifting away;

Throw out the life line! Throw out the life line!

Someone is sinking today.