Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Dear is the spot where Christians sleep
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1037
Page Number: 615, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsDear is the spot where Christians sleep,
And sweet the strains their spirits pour:
O, why should we in anguish weep?--
They are not lost, but gone before.
Secure from every mortal care,
By sin and sorrow vexed no more,
Eternal happiness they share
Who are not lost, but gone before.
To Zion's peaceful courts above
In faith triumphant may we soar.
Embracing, in the arms of love,
The freinds not lost, but gone before.
To Jordan's bank whene'er we come,
And hear the swelling waters roar;
Jesus! convey us safely home,
To friends not lost, but gone before.