1 Thessalonians 4
4
SONG 53
8,6,8,6
tune: Ballerma, 30; Corona, 48; Comfort, 46.
1 Thess 4:13, to the end.
13 Take comfort, Christians, when your friends
in Jesus fall asleep;
Their better being never ends;
why then dejected weep?
2 Why inconsolable, as those
to whom no hope is giv’n?
Death is the messenger of peace,
and calls the soul to heav’n.
14-15 As Jesus dy’d, and rose again
victorious from the dead;
So his disciples rise, and reign
with their triumphant Head.
16-18 The time draws nigh, when from the clouds
Christ shall with shouts descend,
And the last trumpet’s awful voice
the heav’ns and earth shall rend.
5 Then they who live shall changed be,
and they who sleep shall wake;
The graves shall yield their ancient charge,
and earth’s foundations shake.
6 The saints of God, from death set free,
with joy shall mount on high;
The heav’nly hosts with praises loud
shall meet them in the sky.
7 Together to their Father’s house
with joyful hearts they go;
And dwell for ever with the Lord,
beyond the reach of woe.
8 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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First published by the Church of Scotland in 1781.
