CHALVEY. S. M. D. Rev. LEIGHTON GEORGE HAYNE (1836 ). 1868. I. A FEW more years shall roll, A few more seasons come, And we shall be with CHORUS. those that rest A sleep with in the tomb. Then, O my Lord, pre pare My soul for that great day; O wash me in Thy precious blood, And take my sins a way. sinking, The dawn of Heaven breaks; The summer morn I've sigh'd for, The fair, sweet morn a wakes Dark, dark hath been the mid- night, But 1. A SLEEP in Jesus: blessed sleep, From which none ev Un broken by the last of foes. 2 Asleep in Jesus: O how sweet To be for such a slumber meet; With holy confidence to sing, That death hath lost his venomed sting. 3 Asleep in Jesus: peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest; May such a blissful refuge be; Thy kindred and their graves may be; 681 The Death of the Righteous. NUM. xxiii. 10. I How blest the righteous, when he dies, 2 So fades a summer cloud away; 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; And naught disturbs that peace profound, Which his unfettered soul enjoys. 4 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies; While Heaven and earth combine to say, How blest the righteous when he dies!" Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825), 1773. Ab. and alt. RESIGNATION. 6.6.4.6.6.6.4. JOHN HENRY CORNELL (1828 ), 1872. 1. Low Ly and sol-emn be Thy children's cry to Thee, Father di vine: A hymn of 1. UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb; Take this new treasure to And give these sacred relics room, Το thy trust, Peaceful Sleep. 683 2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds. No mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, While angels watch the soft repose. 3 So Jesus slept: God's dying Son [bed; Passed through the grave, and blest the LEOMINSTER. S. M. D. Rest here, blest saint, till from His throne The morning break, and pierce theshade. 4 Break from His throne, illustrious morn; Attend, O earth, His sovereign word; Restore thy trust: a glorious form Shall then ascend to meet the Lord. Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 1734. Alt. Arr. by SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN (1842- ), On the Death of a Minister. 2 At midnight came the cry, "To meet thy God prepare!" He woke, and caught his Captain's eye; His spirit with a bound Left its encumbering clay; His tent, at sunrise, on the ground, A darkened ruin lay. 3 The pains of death are past, Labor and sorrow cease, And, life's long warfare closed at last, James Montgomery (1771-1854), 1825. Ab. I O SHEPHERD of the sheep, High Priest of things to come, Who didst in grace Thy servant keep, His heart was Thine alone, Thy throne the cross, a cross his throne, 2 So, trusting in Thy might, So, waxing valiant in the fight, The charge Thy love had given, V. S. C. Coles, 1868. Ab. |