We Shall Rest - By and By

When the cares of life are pressing With a weight we scarce can bear

Author: T. L. Baily
Tune: [When the cares of life are pressing] (Sweney)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 When the cares of life are pressing,
With a weight we scarce can bear,
What a stream of endless blessing,
Flows to use from over there.
Let our thoughts be thither turning,
To the mansion of the blest,
Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest!

Chorus:
We shall rest, by and by,
In the mansions of the blest,
Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest!

2 O, the peace we find in Jesus,
When we turn to him in pray'r;
For we know he ever sees us,
From his home just over there.
Let not, then, our hearts be fearful,
There are mansions for the blest,
Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest! [Chorus]

Source: Joy to the World: or, sacred songs for gospel meetings #70

Author: T. L. Baily

Bailey, Thomas L., [Thomas Loyd Baily] an American Baptist minister, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1824, and entered the ministry in 1871. He is the author of several hymns in various American Sunday School hymnbooks, as Welcome Tidings, The Garner, &c, including, (l) "Come, talk to me of Jesus" (Jesus the sinner's Friend); and (2) "No night in heaven, eternal day" (Heaven). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: When the cares of life are pressing With a weight we scarce can bear
Title: We Shall Rest - By and By
Author: T. L. Baily
Refrain First Line: We shall rest, by and by
Copyright: Public Domain

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Joy to the World #70

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