Now from the world withdrawn

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Now from the world withdrawn

Author: John Bulmer
Tune: LABAN
Published in 8 hymnals

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1. Now from the world withdrawn,
For fellowship with Thee;
May each, O Lord, before Thy throne,
From earthly cares be free.

2. Possess our every thought,
And teach our minds to pray;
Help us to worship as we ought,
And thus conclude the day.

3. Our strength may we renew,
And lift our hearts above;
That, while life’s journey we pursue,
We still may walk in love.

4. Then, in our latter end,
If death shall close our eyes,
Thy mercy will our souls attend,
And bear them to the skies.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #4622

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Author: John Bulmer

Bulmer, John, born in Yorkshire in 1784, educated for the Congregational Ministry at the Rotherham (Masborough) Independent College, and successively pastor at Haverford-west, Rugelcy, Bristol, Newbury, and Langrove, near Ross. He died in 1857. He composed a few hymns, and compiled:— (1) Hymns, Original and Select, 1834; (2) Hymns and Evangelical Songs for the use of Sunday Schools; (3) Original Hymns intended to be sung at the Public Meetings and other Services of Temperance Societies, 1836; and (4) Beauties of the Vicar of Llandovery: Light from the Welshman's Candle; being translated from the Welsh of Poems by Rees Prichard (died 1644), (2nd edition, 1830). . From his Collection of 1834 the following are still in common use:— 1.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Now from the world withdrawn
Author:	John Bulmer
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Now from the world withdrawn. J. Bulmer. [Evening.] First published in his Hymns, Original and Select, &c, 1835, Bk. i., No. 157, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled "The Spirit of Prayer and Holiness implored." It is one of the very few hymns by the author which have come into general use. It is found in its original form in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866, No. 975, with, in stanza i., l. 3, "0 Lord" for "dear Lord."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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