The Master comes and speaks again

The Master comes, and speaks again
To sinners in their youthful prime,
Who careless in diversions vain
Idly mispend their choicest time:
Before we hear his inward call,
What can we for salvation do?
But soon or late He summons all,
And bids us work with heaven in view.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market-place, and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.’—[Matt. 20,] v. 3, 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 330.
Publishing: Public Domain