Take comfort, Christians, when your friends

Verse 1

Take comfort, Christians, when your friends in Jesus fall asleep; their better being never ends; why then dejected weep?

Verse 2

Why inconsolable, as those to whom no hope is giv’n? Death is the messenger of peace, and calls the soul to heav’n.

Verse 3

As Jesus dy'd, and rose again victorious from the dead; so his disciples rise, and reign with their triumphant Head.

Verse 4

The time draws nigh, when from the clouds Christ shall with shouts descend, and the last trumpet’s awful voice the heavens and earth shall rend.

Verse 5

Then they who live shall changed be, and they who sleep shall wake; the graves shall yield their ancient charge, and earth’s foundations shake.

Verse 6

The saints of God, from death set free, with joy shall mount on high; the heav’nly hosts with praises loud shall meet them in the sky,

Verse 7

Together to their Father’s house with joyful hearts they go; and dwell for ever with the Lord, beyond the reach of woe.

Verse 8

A few short years of evil past, we reach the happy shore, where death-divided friends at last shall meet, to part no more.