Why Do You Wait?

Written and composed by George Frederick Root, this hymn is published in "Church Hymnal" (Pages 378-379) by Tennessee Music and Printing Co. (1951, 1979) and is available on Amazon. George Frederick Root, MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portra