Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: When languor and disease invade
Topic: Comfort
Writer: A Toplady
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: CM
Tune: Chimes
Hymn Number: 293
Page Number: 107, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
And long to fly away;
Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of His love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above;
Sweet to look back and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own;
Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,
That when my change shall come,
Angels shall hover round my bed,
And waft my spirit home.