Come Thou with Us

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1 Oh, tell me no more
Of this world's vain store;
The time for such trifles with me is now o'er.

2 A country I've found
Where true joys abound,
To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.

3 The souls which believe
In paradise live,
And me in that number will Jesus receive.

4 No longer I stay,
He calls me away:
I follow thee, Saviour, and bless the glad day.

5 And when I'm to die,
Receive me, I'll cry,
For life everlasting for me thou didst buy.


Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #1027

Author: Benjamin Schmolck

Schmolck, Benjamin, son of Martin Schmolck, or Schmolcke, Lutheran pastor at Brauchitschdorf (now Chrόstnik) near Liegnitz in Silesia (now Poland) was born at Brauchitschdorf, Dec. 21, 1672. He entered the Gymnasium at Lauban in 1688, and spent five years there. After his return home he preached for his father a sermon which so struck the patron of the living that he made Benjamin an allowance for three years to enable him to study theology. He matriculated, at Michaelmas, 1693, at the University of Leipzig, where he came under the influence of J. Olearius, J. B. Carpzov, and others, and throughout his life retained the character of their teaching, viz. a warm and living practical Christianity, but Churchly in tone and not Pietistic. In th… Go to person page >

Translator: John Gambold

Gambold, John, M.A., was b. April 10, 1711, at Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, where his father was vicar. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1730, M.A. in 1734. Taking Holy Orders, he became, about 1739, Vicar of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, but resigned his living in Oct. 1742, and joined the United Brethren [Moravians], by whom lie was chosen one of their bishops in 1754. He d. at Haverfordwest, Sept. 13, 1771. He published an edition of the Greek Testament; Maxims and Theological Ideas; Sermons, and a dramatic poem called Ignatius. About 26 translations and 18 original hymns in the Moravian Hymn Books are assigned to him. One or two of his hymns, which were published by the Wesleys, have been claimed for them, bu… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O tell me no more Of this world's vain store
Title: Come Thou with Us
German Title: Ach sagt mir nichts von eiteln Schätzen
Translator: John Gambold
Author: Benjamin Schmolck
Meter: 10.11.10.11
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

O tell me no more Of this world's vain store. J. Gambold. [Peace with God.] Appeared in the English Moravian Hymn Book, 1742, No. 107, in 14 stanzas of 4 lines. In the 1886 ed., No. 488, it is reduced to 11 stanzas, and also slightly altered.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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