Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Come now my dear brethren I'll bid you farewell
Topic: Parting Hymns
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
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Hymn Number: 255
Page Number: 280, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome now my dear brethren, I'll bid you farewell,
By grace I'm resolved in heaven to dwell,
I am going to travel the wilderness through,
Therefore, my dear brethren, I'll bid you adieu.
To think of our parting doth cause me to grieve,
So well do I love you, yet you I must leave;
My Jesus commands me, and I must obey,
Therefore, my dear brethren, don't grieve after me.
May heaven protect you, be Jesus your guide,
In the ways of your Saviour may you still abide;
Tho' we be at a distance, and you I ne'er see,
On the banks of deliv'rance acpauinted we'll be.
There all things are plenty, the leaves growing green,
The parting of Christians no more will be seen:
No sorrow nor sighing shall enter that place,
But there we shall join in a song of free grace.
Farewell to all sorrow, temptation, and pain,
I am going where Jesus forever doth reign;
I am going to Jesus, 'tis him I adore,
With saints and bright angels to dwell evermore.
But when we meet Jesus in the mansions above,
Where millions of angels are fill'd with his love;
O then we shall see these dear Christians appear;
How glad we shall be to meet each other there.