Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: When languor and disease invade
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: China
Hymn Number: 694
Page Number: 253, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'T is sweet to look beyond my pains,
And long to fly away:
Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above:
Sweet to look back and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own:
Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,
That when my change shall come,
Angels shall hover round my bed,
And waft my spirit home.