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Hymn: Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> McKay

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1038

Page Number: 616, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep

From which none ever wakes to weep--

A calm and undisturbed repose,

Unbroken by the last of foes.



Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet

To be for such a slumber meet!

With holy confidence to sing,

That death has lost its vemoned sting.



Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,

Whose waking is supremely blest:

No fear, no wo, shall dim the hour

That manifests the Saviour's power.



Asleep in Jesus! O for me 

May such a blissful refuge be:

Securely shall my ashes lie,

And wait the summons from on high.



Asleep in Jesus! time nor space 

Affects this precious hiding-place:

On Indian plains or Lapland snows

Believers find the same repose.



Asleep in Jesus! far from thee

Thy kindred and their graves may be:

But thine is still a blessed sleep,

From which none ever wake to weep.