Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Gently my Saviour let me down
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Hill
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1034
Page Number: 613, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGently, my Saviour, let me down,
To slumber in the arms of death;
I rest my soul on thee alone,
E'en tillmy last, expiring breath.
Soon will the storm of life be o'er,
And I shall enter endless rest;
There I shall live to sin no more,
And bless thy name, for ever blest.
Bid me possess sweet peace within;
Let childlike patience keep my heart,
Then shall I feel my heaven begin,
Before my spirit hence depart.
O, speed thy chariot, God of love,
And take me from this world of wo;
I long to reach those joys above,
And bid farewell to all below.
There shall my raptured spirit raise
Still louder notes than angels sing-
High glories to Immanuel's grace,
My God, my Saviour, and my King!