Text: | God of the Living, in Whose Eyes |
Author: | John Ellerton |
Tune: | GOTTLOB, ES GEHT |
Composer or Arranger: | J. S. Bach |
1 God of the living, in whose eyes
Unveiled your whole creation lies,
All souls are yours; we must not say
That those are dead who pass away,
From this our world of flesh set free;
We know they live eternally.
2 Released from earthly toil and strife,
With you is hidden still their life;
Yours are their thoughts, their works, their powers,
All yours, and yet most truly ours,
For well we know, where'er they be,
Our dead now live eternally.
3 Your word is true, your will is just;
To you we leave them, Lord, in trust;
And bless you for the love which gave
Your Son to fill a human grave,
That none might fear that world to see
Where all do live eternally.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | God of the living, in whose eyes |
Title: | God of the Living, in Whose Eyes |
Author: | John Ellerton (1859, 1862, alt. 1972) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Acts of the Church: Witness to the Resurrection—Funeral; Civil Year: Memorial Day |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GOTTLOB, ES GEHT |
Composer or Arranger: | J. S. Bach (1769) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Music from The Harvard University Hymn Book; copyright 1926 by Harvard University Press, renewed 1954 by Archibald T. Davison; used by permission. |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. As in The Harvard University Hymn Book, 1926 |