Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Oft as the bell with solemn toll
Topic: Funeral
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 267
Page Number: 294, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOft as the bell with solemn toll,
Speaks the departure of a soul,
Let each one ask himself, "am I
Prepar'd, should I be call'd to die?"
Only this frail, this fleeting breath,
Preserves me from the jaws of death;
Soon as it fails, at once I'm gone,
And plung'd into a world unknown.
Then leaving, all I lov'd below,
To God's tribunal I must go;
Must hear the judge pronounce my fate,
And fix my everlasting state.
How could I bear to hear him say,
"Depart, accursed, far away,
"With Satan, in the lowest hell
"Thou art forever doom'd to dwell."
Lord Jesus, help me now to flee,
And seek my hope alone in thee;
Apply thy blood, thy Spirit give,
Subdue my sin and let me live.
Then, when the solemn bell I hear,
If sav'd from sin I need not fear;
Nor would the thought distressing be -
"Perhaps it next may toll for me.