Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Rest for the toiling hand (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Rest for the toiling hand

Topic: Funerals

Writer: H Bonar

Composer: Paisello

Meter: SM

Tune: Vigil

Hymn Number: 405

Page Number: 132, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

REST for the toiling hand,

Rest for the anxious brow,

Rest for the weary, way-worn feet,

Rest from all labor now.



Soon shall the trump of God

Give out the welcome sound

That shakes thy silent chamber-walls,

And breaks the turf-sealed ground.



Ye dwellers in the dust,

Awake! come forth and sing;

Sharp has your frost of winter been,

But bright shall be your spring.



'Twas sown in weakness here;

'Twill then be raised in power:

That which was sown an earthly seed

Shall rise a heavenly flower.