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Take comfort Christian when your friends in Jesus fall asleep Their better being never ends, why then defeated weep. Why inconsolable as those, to whom no hope is given. Death is the messenger of Peace, and calls the soul to heaven The saints of God from death set free, with Joy shall mount on high The heavenly hosts with Praises loud shall meet them in the sky A few short years of evil past, we reach the happy shore Where death divided friends at last shall meet to part no more.

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Take comfort Christian when your friends in Jesus fall asleep Their better being never ends, why then defeated weep. Why inconsolable as those, to whom no hope is given. Death is the messenger of Peace, and calls the soul to heaven The saints of God from death set free, with Joy shall mount on high The heavenly hosts with Praises loud shall meet them in the sky A few short years of evil past, we reach the happy shore Where death divided friends at last shall meet to part no more.
Listed on Page Number
290
Sampler Worked By
Maria Russell
Date of Sampler
1808
Place Sampler Made
Gettysburg, PA
Sampler Listed on Page
218
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Logan, John. “LIII” Church of Scotland. Translations and Paraphrases of Passages of Sacred Scripture. Edinburgh: J. Dickson, 1781. Ppgs. 86-88
Notes
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Translations_and_Paraphrases_of_Several/u51hAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=comfort Selected lines from this hymn, with slight variation.