All Believer Hymn Book

Hymn 241 THROW OUT THE LIFELINE Lyrics

1. Throw out the Lifeline across the dark wave.
There is a brother whom someone should save;
Somebody’s brother! O who then, will dare
To throw out the Lifeline, his peril share?

Chorus:
Throw out the Lifeline.
Throw out the Lifeline!
Someone is drifting away;
Someone sinking today

2. Throw out the Lifeline with hand quick and strong;
Why do you tarry, why linger so long?
See! He is sinking: O hasten today
And out with the Life Boat! Away, then away!

3. Throw out the lifeline to danger fraught men,
Sinking in anguish where you’ve never been:
Winds of temptation and billows of woe
Will Soon hurt Them out where the dear waters flow

4. 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 lifeline and save them today