Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Dear is the spot where Christians sleep
Topic: Funerals
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: LM
Tune: Ernan
Hymn Number: 132
Page Number: 049, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsDEAR is the spot where Christians sleep,
And sweet the strains their spirits pour,
O why should we in anguish weep?
They are not lost, but gone before.
Secure from every mortal care,
By sin and sorrow vexed no more:
Eternal happiness they share,
Who are not lost, but gone before.
To Zion's peaceful courts above
In faith triumphant may we soar,
Embracing, in the arms of love,
The friends not lost, but gone before.
To Jordan's bank whene'er we come,
And hear the swelling waters roar,
Jesus, convey us safely home,
To friends not lost, but gone before.