Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Saviour breathe an evening blessing
Topic: Morning and Evening/Evening
Writer: J Edmeston
Composer: D Jones
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Stockwell
Hymn Number: 493
Page Number: 166, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSAVIOUR, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal.
Sin and want we come confessing:
Thou canst save, and thou canst heal.
Though destruction walk around us,
Thought the arrows past us fly,
Angel guards from thee surround us-
We are safe if thou art nigh.
Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness can not hide from thee;
Thou art he who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.
Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in bright and deathless bloom.