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We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home

O mothers, get ready and go home

Tune: [O mothers, get ready and go home]
Published in 2 hymnals

Text Information

First Line: O mothers, get ready and go home
Title: We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We will lay down the Bible and go home
Notes: An old minister, after preaching the Gospel for more than fifty years, when dying called his family around him, and asked his wife to hand him his Bible, and holding it in his hand, quoted from it, and thus said, "We will lay down the Bible and go home, Bright angels standing at the door.
Copyright: Public Domain
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Greatest and Lasting Hymns #d232

Greatest and Lasting Hymns #d232
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Lasting Hymns No. 2 #183

Lasting Hymns No. 2 #183
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