Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Rest for the toiling hand (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Rest for the toiling hand

Topic: Christ/Second Advent

Writer: H Bonar

Composer: Handel

Meter: SM

Tune: Thatcher (Stop)

Hymn Number: 420

Page Number: 145, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

REST 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 seal'd ground.

Ye dwellers in the dust,

Awake! come forth and sing;

Sharp has your frost of Winter been,

But bright shall be your Spring.



'Twas sown in weakness here;

'Twill then be rais'd in pow'r;

That which was sown an earthly seed

Shall rise a heav'nly flow'r.