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Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Sources: The Sacred Lyre, by Jonathan Aldridge (Boston, Massachusetts: Andrew F. Graves, 1859), number 1 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53133 35533 23453 Used With Text: Come to the Place of Prayer

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Come to the Place of Prayer

Author: Robert Turnbull, 1809-1877 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #1044 Lyrics: 1. Come to the place of prayer, the day is past and gone, And on the silent air, the voice of praise is borne: Sweet is the hour of rest, pleasant the heart’s low sigh, The glow within our breast, and the hope beyond the sky. 2. Yes, tuneful is the sound of Christians as they sing; Welcome the glory round, shed from the Spirit’s wing; But bliss more sweet and still than aught on earth e’er gave, Our yearning souls shall fill in the world beyond the grave. 3. Earth with her dreams shall fade, our bodies turn to dust; Our souls shall soar and sing in mansions of the just; We lift our trusting eyes from hills our fathers trod, To quiet in the skies, to the Sabbath of our God. Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to the place of prayer]

Come to the place of prayer

Hymnal: The Southern Psalmist #d144 (1859) First Line: Come to the place of prayer, The day is past and gone

Come to the place of prayer

Hymnal: Revival Songs. 4th ed. #d56 (1879)

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Robert Turnbull

1809 - 1877 Person Name: Robert Turnbull, 1809-1877 Author of "Come to the Place of Prayer" in The Cyber Hymnal Turnbull, Robert, D.D., was born at Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, Sept. 10, 1809, and educated at the University of Glasgow. After officiating for a time in England and Scotland as a Baptist minister, in 1833 he removed to America, where lie ministered in several places until 1845, when he became pastor of the First Baptist Church, Hartford. He died at Hartford, Nov. 20, 1877. He published Olympia Morata, 1842, and several other works. His hymn on Heaven,”There is a place of waveless rest," appeared in Cutting's Hymns for the Vestry and Fireside, 1841. In the Baptist Psalmist, 1843, it was altered to "There is a place of sacred rest," the form in which it is known to modern collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)