Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: With silence only as their benediction
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: W Reynolds
Tune: Hymn Chant 17
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 304, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics1 WITH silence only as their benediction, God's angels come,
2 Where, in the shadow of a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb.
3 Yet would we say, what every heart approveth,
Our Father's will,
4 Calling to Him the dear ones whom He loveth, Is mercy still.
5 Not upon us or ours the solemn angel Hath evil wrought;
6 The funeral anthem is a glad evangel; The good die not!
7 God calls us our loved ones, but we lose not wholly
What He has given;
8 They live on earth in thought and deed,
as truly As in His heaven.