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Where is now our loved one

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Where is now our loved one]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Where is now our loved one?
Where, O where?
Not where the living weary,
Not where the dying moan;
Not where the day is dreary,
Not where the night is lone.
Not in a home of weeping,
Not in a darkened room,
Not in a graveyard sleeping.
Not in a silent tomb,
Not in a graveyard sleeping,
Not in a silent tomb.
No, not there;
No, not there!

2 Where is now our loved one?
Where, O where?
Safe in a land immortal,
Safe in a country rare,
Safe in a heavenly portal,
Safe in a mansion fair,
Safe with the joys supernal,
Safe with the bless'd to bow,
Safe with the Love Eternal,
Safe with the Master now,
Safe with the Love Eternal,
Safe with the Master now,
There, yes, there;
There, yes, there!

Source: Minnetonka Songs: for Sabbath Schools, compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly #86

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Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

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