Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Servant of God well done
Topic: Funerals
Writer: James Montgomery
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: SM
Tune: Laban
Hymn Number: 390
Page Number: 127, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSERVANT of God, well done!
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy.
The voice at midnight came;
He started up to hear:
A mortal arrow pierced his frame;
He fell, but felt no fear.
Tranquil amid alarms,
It found him on the field,
A veteran slumbering on his arms,
Beneath his red-cross shield.
At midnight came the cry,
"To meet thy God, prepare!"
He woke, and caught his Captains eye;
Then, strong in faith and prayer,
His spirit, with a bound,
Left its encumbering clay;
His tent, at sunrise on the ground
A darkened ruin lay.
The pains of death are past;
Labor and sorrow cease,
And, life's long warfare closed at last,
His soul is found in peace.