Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: W Bradbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Rest
Hymn Number: 700
Page Number: 256, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAsleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep-
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.
Asleep in Jesus! oh how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet!
With holy confidence to sing,
That death has lost its venomed sting.
Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest:
No fear, no woe, shall dim the hour
That manifests the Savior's power.
Asleep in Jesus! oh for me
May such a blissful refuge be;
Securely shall my ashes lie,
And wait the summons from on high.
Asleep in Jesus! time nor space
Affects this precious hiding-place;
On Indian plains, or Lapland snows,
Believers find the same repose.
Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But thine is still a blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep.