Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep
Topic: Funerals
Writer: <no first name given> Mackay
Composer: William Bradbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Rest
Hymn Number: 188
Page Number: 064, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsASLEEP in Jesus! blessed sleep,
From which non ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes!
Asleep in Jesus! O 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 that hour
That manifests the Saviour's power.
Asleep in Jesus! O 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, on 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 wakes to weep.