--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 4 published: 1920-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Stephens, Evan, "Sacrament Hymn," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 4 (February 1920): 330–331.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2304unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2304unse start_page: 330 end_page: 331 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2304unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Sacrament Hymn Sacrament Hymn Words and Music by Evan Stephens. 1st and 2nd Tenor P pmrrrm Sa - vior di vine, z S^=* The gift was : mm ThiDe, -*— Thy ho - ly will, Here to ful 61, These emblems pure, Our hearts as sure, Sa - vior di - vine, Our hearts are thine, 1st and 2nd Bass. P - ^^fea t=x =* .j. ._. 4 fr T5*" ^^ cres. £M^^r\rr^ That bought this ran - somed soul of mine, Thy suff 'ring Aid thou our fee - ble ef - forts still, Forgive our That we a - gain, if we are pure, Shall meet a- let Thy light with - in them shine, To guide us 4 — l- r cres. Sfe^m^^^mmmsore faults as up - on the we for - give tree; Thy blood that flowed was shed for Our brother's fail - ings, while we round thy festal board, With thee, our res - ur - rect - ed on - ward day by day, Still in the straight and narrow to. *¥ SACRED HYMN 331 dim. ft m^*=j 0=0 me, Witness we now re - mem - ber thee. live By the com - mand - ments thou didst give. Lord, Sharing the joys thy grace af - fords. way, Thy pre-cepts ev - er to o bey. m^M^- t^ ^Se > 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.