- Full Text
- ON THE TRUTH WE BELIEVE
Gr[ant] rem[emb]ranc[e well t]o paint
The moment after death
The glory that surround the saint
When yielding up their breath
While they have gained we loose….
We miss them day by day
But thou canst every breach….
And wipe our tears away.
- Listed on Page Number
- 293
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary A. Cheever
- Date of Sampler
- 1817
- Place Sampler Made
- Attleborough, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 138
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Newton, John. The Olney Hymns in Three Books. London: W. Oliver, 1779. Book 2, pg. 268.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_olney-hymns-in-three-bo_newton-john_1779/page/272/mode/1up?q=paint
This verse is a variation on Hymn LXXII’s stanzas 1 and 7.