The Most Terrifying Hymn Lyrics I've Ever Read - Standing Outside

When I visited Sister Mavis in the hospital, she would always be talking about Jesus: to me, to her nurses and doctors, and singing. She would sing different songs about the Lord. One of the songs she sang was quite terrifying. It's called: Standing Outside:

Judgment is surely coming, coming to you and me

We will be judged that morning, for all eternity
Some will go into heaven, others will be denied
Will you be in that number, standing outside?

Standing outside the portals, standing outside denied

Standing outside the portals, standing outside denied

Knowing that with the demons, ever you shall abide

Never to share the beauty, awaiting the sanctified

Oh! what an awful picture, standing outside.

Standing outside while loved ones, enter the pearly gate

Knowing that there forever, you will then separate

To be away from loved ones and by our God denied

Oh! what an awful picture, standing outside?

Can you not see the picture of those who're lost in sin

Standing outside the portals, without a hope to win

Soul-crushed with deepest sorrow, without a friend to guide

Oh! what an awful picture, standing outside.

J. A. McClung, 1932

God And The Gospel

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