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Hymn: Oh tell me no more of this world's vain store (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Oh tell me no more of this world's vain store

Topic: God in Providence

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: From Social H & T Book

Meter: 10 10 11 11

Tune: Comfort

Hymn Number: 59

Page Number: 025, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Oh tell me no more of this world's vain store:

The time for such trifles with me now is o'er;

A country I've found where true joys abound,

To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.



The souls that believe, in glory shall live,

And me in that number will Jesus receive;

My soul, do n't delay, he calls thee away,

Rise, follow the Savior, and bless the glad day.



No mortal doth know what he can bestow,

What light, strength, and comfort--go after him, go;

Lo, onward I move to a city above,

None guesses how wondrous my journey will prove.



Great spoils I shall win from death, hell, and sin,

'Midst outward afflictions I feel Christ within;

And when I'm to die, receive me, I'll cry;

For Jesus has loved me--I can not tell why.