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Brief life is here our portion
Author: Bernard of Cluny; John Mason Neale Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #527 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there.
2 O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest,
For mortals and for sinners
A mansion with the blest.
3 That we should look, poor wanderers
To have or home on high!
That we should seek for dwellings
beyond the starry sky!
4 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full and everlasting
And passionless renown.
5 For Thee, O dear, dear Country!
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name, they weep;
6 The mention of thy glory
In unction to the breast.
And medicine in sickness
And love, and life, and rest.
7 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
thou hast no time, bright ay!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away!
8 Upon the Rock of Ages
They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,
And thine the golden dower.
Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE
Brief life is here our portion
Blessed be the everlasting God
Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: The Presbyterian Book of Praise #338 (1897) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Christian Life The Life Everlasting Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. STEPHEN
Blessed be the everlasting God
God of the living, in Whose eyes
Author: John Ellerton Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #508 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Death Lyrics: 1 God of the living, in Whose eyes
Unveiled Thy whole creation lies,
All souls are Thine; we must not say
That those are dead who pass away,
From this our world of flesh set free;
We know them living unto Thee.
2 Released from earthly toil and strife,
With Thee is hidden still their life;
Thine are their thoughts, their works, their powers,
All thine, and yet most truly ours;
For well we know, where'er they be,
Our dead are living unto Thee.
3 Not spilt like water on the ground,
Not wrapped in dreamless sleep profound,
Not wandering in unknown despair
Beyond Thy voice, Thine arm, Thy care;
Not left to lie like fallen tree;
Not dead, but living unto Thee.
4 Thy Word is true, Thy will is just;
To Thee we leave them, Lord, in trust,
And bless Thee for the love which gave
Thy Son to fill a human grave,
That none might fear that world to see
Where all are living unto Thee.
5 O Breather into man of breath,
O Holder of the keys of death,
O Giver of the life within,
Save us from death, the death of sin;
That body, soul, and spirit be
For ever living unto Thee!
Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: DAVID'S HARP
God of the living, in Whose eyes
A pilgrim and a stranger
Author: Jane Borthwick; Paul Gerhardt Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #517a (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 A pilgrim and a stranger,
I journey here below;
Far distant is my country,
The house to which I go.
Here I must toil and travail,
Oft weary and oppressed,
But there my God shall lead me
To everlasting rest.
2 There still my thoughts are dwelling,
'Tis there I long to be;
Come, Lord, and call Thy servant
To blessedness with Thee.
Come, bid my toils be ended,
Let all my wanderings cease;
Call from the wayside lodging
To the sweet home of peace.
3 There I shall dwell for ever,
No more a stranger guest,
With all Thy blood-bought children
In everlasting rest,--
The pilgrim toils forgotten,
The pilgrim conflicts o'er,
All earthly griefs behind us,
Eternal joys before!
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: LLANGLOFFAN
A pilgrim and a stranger
A pilgrim and a stranger
Author: Jane Borthwick; Paul Gerhardt Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #517b (1917) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 A pilgrim and a stranger,
I journey here below;
Far distant is my country,
The house to which I go.
Here I must toil and travail,
Oft weary and oppressed,
But there my God shall lead me
To everlasting rest.
2 There still my thoughts are dwelling,
'Tis there I long to be;
Come, Lord, and call Thy servant
To blessedness with Thee.
Come, bid my toils be ended,
Let all my wanderings cease;
Call from the wayside lodging
To the sweet home of peace.
3 There I shall dwell for ever,
No more a stranger guest,
With all Thy blood-bought children
In everlasting rest,--
The pilgrim toils forgotten,
The pilgrim conflicts o'er,
All earthly griefs behind us,
Eternal joys before!
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: GERHARDT
A pilgrim and a stranger
Thy Word, O God, declareth
Author: Johann Walther; Alfred Ramsey Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #523 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 Thy Word, O God, declareth
No man hath seen or heard
The joys our God prepareth
For them that love their Lord.
Their eyes shall see Thy glory,
Thy face, Thy throne, Thy might;
With shouts shall they adore Thee,
The true, eternal Light.
2 With Thee, their warfare ended,
Thy saints, from earth released,
Shall keep, with glories splendid,
Eternal holy feast.
There shall Thy sons and daughters
The tree of life partake,
Shall drink the living waters;
And bread with Thee shall break.
3 Thy constant praises sounding
Before Thy great white throne,
They all in joy abounding
Shall sing the song unknown;
Laud, honor, praise, thanksgiving
And glory ever be
To Thee, the Everlasting
And Blessèd Trinity.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ANSELM
Thy Word, O God, declareth
Brief life is here our portion
Author: Bernard of Cluny; J. M. Neale Hymnal: The Presbyterian Book of Praise #349 (1897) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: The Christian Life The Life Everlasting Scripture: Song of Solomon 4:6 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE
Brief life is here our portion
Angels of Jesus, Angels of light
Author: Rev. Frederick W. Faber Hymnal: The Hymnal #431 (1950) Meter: 11.10.11.10.9.11 Topics: The Life Everlasting First Line: Hark! hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling Lyrics: 1 Hark! hark, my soul! Angelic songs are swelling
O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore:
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.
Refrain:
Angels of Jesus, Angels of light,
Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night!
2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing,
"Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come";
And through the dark, its echoes sweetly ringing,
The music of the gospel leads us home. [Refrain]
3 Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing,
The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea;
And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing,
Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee. [Refrain]
4 Rest comes at length: though life be long and dreary,
The day must dawn, and darksome night be past;
Faith's journeys end in welcome to the weary,
And heaven, the heart's true home, will come at last. [Refrain]
5 Angels, sing on, your faithful watches keeping;
Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above,
Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,
And life's long shadows break in cloudless love. [Refrain]
Amen. Tune Title: PILGRIMS (SMART)
Angels of Jesus, Angels of light
Our God, our help in ages past
Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #505 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Death Lyrics: 1 Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
2 Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
3 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4 A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night,
Before the rising sun.
5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Soon bears us all away;
They fly, forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
6 Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last
And our eternal home!
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ANNE
Our God, our help in ages past
There is a land of pure delight
Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #518 (1917) Topics: The Life Everlasting Heaven Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering, on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes!
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood
Should fright us from the shore.
Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: SAWLEY
There is a land of pure delight
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