Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: To weary hearts to mourning homes
Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance
Writer: <no first name given> Whittier
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 901
Page Number: 534, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTo weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God's meekest angel gently comes;
No power hath he to banish pain,
Or give us back our lost again.
And yet, in tenderest love, our dear
And Heavenly Father sends him here.
Angel of patience! sent to calm
Our feverish brows with cooling balm,
To lay with hope the storms of fear,
And reconcile life's smile and tear,
The throbs of wounded pride to still,
And make our own our Father's will!
O thou, who mournest on thy way,
With longings for the close of day,
He walks with thee, that angel kind,
And gently whispers, "Be resign'd!
Bear us, bear on, the end shall tell,
The dear Lord ordereth all things well."