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Hymn: Death can not make our souls afraid (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Death can not make our souls afraid

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1054

Page Number: 624, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Death can not make our souls afraid,

If God be with us there;

We may walk through its darkest shade,

And never yield to fear.



I could renounce my all below,

If my Redeemer bid;

And run, if I were call'd to go,

And die, as Moses did.



Might I but climb to Pisgah's top,

And view the promis'd land,

My flesh itself would long to drop,

And welcome the command.



Clasp'd in my heav'nly Father's arms

I would forget my breath,

And lose my life among the charms

Of so divine a death.