We're not of the world which fadeth away

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We're not of the world which fadeth away

Author: James G. Deck
Tune: LYONS
Published in 3 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Easy Hymn Settings- General - Set 3

Instrumental
	O Worship the King

Handbells
	Songs for Rejoicing (Six Reproducible Me…

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1 We're not of the world which fadeth away,
We're not of the night, but children of day;
The chains that once bound us, by Jesus are riven,
We're strangers on earth, and our home is in heaven.

2 Our path is most rugged, and dangerous too,
A wide trackless waste our journey lies through;
But the pillar of cloud that shows us our way
Is our sure light by night, and shades us by day.

3 Our Shepherd is still our Guardian and Guide,
Before us he goes to help and provide:
The springs that refresh us from heaven were given,
Our break is the Manna that came down from heaven.

4 'Mid mightiest foes--most feeble are we--
Yet, trembling before our great Leader, they flee;
The Lord is our Banner, the battle is His,
The weakest of saints more than conqueror is.

5 And soon shall we enter our own promised land,
Around His bright throne in glory shall stand:
Our song then forever and ever shall be,
"All glory and blessing, Lord Jesus, to Thee!"

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #234

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Author: James G. Deck

Deck, James George, eldest son of John Deck, of Bury St. Edmunds, was born in 1802 and educated for the army, and became an officer in the Indian service. Retiring from the army, and having joined the Plymouth Brethren, he undertook, in 1843, the charge of a congregation of that body, at Wellington, Somerset. In 1852 be went abroad and settled in New Zealand. His hymns were published in Hymns for the Poor of the Flock, 1837-1838; Psalms and Hymns, &c, London, Walther (containing those in the former collection), 1842; the Wellington Hymn Book, 1857; Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1860. Of his hymns now in use outside his own denomination, the greater part appeared in the 1837-1838 book, and are found in his brother-in-law's (Dr. Walker's) Chelte… Go to person page >

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