Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: When languor and disease invade
Topic: Christian/Afflictions
Writer: A Toplady
Composer: R Simpson
Meter: CM
Tune: Balerma
Hymn Number: 265
Page Number: 087, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis 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.