Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Thou God of love beneath thy sheltering wings (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Thou God of love beneath thy sheltering wings

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 10s 6 and 4

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1093

Page Number: 648, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Thou God of love! beneath thy sheltering wings

We leave our holy dead,

To rest in hope! From this world's sufferings

Their souls have fled!

O! when our souls are burdened with the weight

Of life, and all its woes,

Let us remember them, and calmly wait

for our life's close!