Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Blest be the dear uniting love
Topic: Parting of Christians
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 210
Page Number: 186, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBlest be the dear uniting love,
That will not let us part;
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are on in heart.
Join'd in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.
O may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside:
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucifi'd.
Closer and closer let us cleave
To his belov'd embrace,
Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.
Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death, can part.
But let us hasten to that day,
Which shall our flesh restore,
When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more.