Sacrament Hymn · Improvement Era

Sacrament Hymn Words and Music by Evan Stephens. 1st and 2nd Tenor P

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These emblems pure, Our hearts as sure,

Sa - vior di - vine, Our hearts are thine,

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SACRED HYMN 331

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Rest, Dearest, Rest

[May be sung to the above music for a funeral hymn]

Rest, dearest, rest on earth's calm breast,

Bright stars will o'er thee vigils keep. The sun and moon, yon mountains steep, Will guard the bed where thou dost sleep Till God shall break thy slumber deep.

Sleep, dearest, sleep ; sweet flowers shall keep The landscape fair above thy head, As shining dew drops gently shed Diffusing moisture overhead, Refresh the green sward o'er thy bed.

Peace, perfect peace, and sweet release From earthly sorrows now are thine. Into God's bands we now resign The treasured dust our hearts enshrine. God keep and raise thee, all divine.

will see that The time will come when the nations' thinkers there is no way under heaven through which we can more effectually reach all men, and particularly those whom classes of reach, and make them churches and Sunday schools do not merciful in all the relations of life than by leading them to say times a day to the kind words and do kind acts a hundred dumb creatures by whom they are surrounded.