Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Servant of God well done
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1070
Page Number: 632, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsServant of God, well done!
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy.
The voice at midnight came;
He started up to hear;
A mortal arrow pierced his frame,
He fell, but felt no fear.
Tranquil amid alarms,
It found him on the field,
A veeteran slumbering on his arms,
Beneath his red-cross shield
At midnight came the cry,
"To meet thy God, prepare!"
He woke - and caught his Captain's eye;
Then, strong in faith and prayer,
His spirit, with a bound,
Left its encumbering clay;
His tent, at sunrise, on the ground,
A darkened ruin lay.
The pains of death are past,
Labor and sorrow cease;
And life's long warfare closed at last,
His soul is found in peace.