Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Rest for the toiling hand
Topic: The Present and the Future/The Resurrection
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1110
Page Number: 658, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsRest for the toiling hand,
Rest for the anxious brow,
Rest for the weary, way-worn feet,
Rest from all labor now;
Soon shall the trump of God
Give out the welcome sound
That shakes thy silent chamber-walls,
And breaks the turf-sealed ground.
Ye dwellers in the dust,
Awake! come forth and sing;
Sharp has your frost of winter been,
But bright shall be your spring.
'T was sown in weakness here;
'T will then be raised in power;
That which was sown an earthly seed
Shall rise a heavenly flower.