Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: A father is praying the Saviour to hear
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 6s 7s and 5s or 11s and 12s
Tune: The Ruler's Daughter
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 203, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsA father is praying
The Saviour to hear,
For his daughter is dying,
With no helper near;
Beseeching him greatly,
He falls at his feet,
And his story of sorrow,
O hear him repeat.
My dear little daughter
I fear she will die;
O thou merciful Saviour,
Attend to my cy;
If thou wilt but touch her
She surely will live,
Then to thee all the glory,
O Jesus, I'll give.
And Jesus went with him,
But soon it was said
To the heart-stricken father,
Thy daughter is dead;
Why trouble the Master,
Thy woes to relieve,
But the kind Saviour whispers,
"Now only believe."
They came to the house,
And the mourners were there;
Who with weeping and wailing
Were rending the air;
But Jesus reproved them,
Why thus do you weep?
For the maid is not dead,
She is only asleep.
O see with a touch
How the maiden awakes,
When the mighty Physician
Her hand gently takes;
And, see, from her features
Pale death quickly flies,
At the voice of the Saviour,
"O damsel, arise."