Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Servant of God well done
Topic: Death/Of Aged
Writer: James Montgomery
Composer: Aaron Williams
Meter: SM
Tune: Dover
Hymn Number: 84
Page Number: 037, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSERVANT of God, well done!
Rest from thy lov'd employ;
The battle fought, the vict'ry won,
Enter thy Master's joy.
The voice at midnight came;
He started up to hear;
A mortal arrow pierc'd his frame,
He fell, but felt no fear.
Tranquil amid alarms,
It found him on the field,
A vet'ran slumb'ring 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 pray'r,
His spirit, with a bound,
Left its encumb'ring clay;
His tent, at sunrise, on the ground
A darken'd ruin lay.
The pains of death are past,
Labor and sorrow cease;
And, life's long warfare clos'd at last,
His soul is found in peace.