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[Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: S. B. Saxton Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33453 12333 45627 Used With Text: Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep

Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep

Author: Margaret Mackay Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,120 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes. 2 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet To be for such a slumber meet; With holy confidence to sing That death hath lost its painful sting. 3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest; No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour That manifests the Saviour's power. 4 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, for me May such a blissful refuge be! Securely shall my ashes lie, Waiting the summons from on high. 5 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be; But there is still a blessèd sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep. Amen. Topics: Burial of the Dead Used With Tune: [Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]

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Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep

Author: Mrs. Margaret Mackay, ab. (1802-) Hymnal: The New Alleluia #156b (1886) Languages: English Tune Title: [Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]

Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep!

Author: Mrs. Margaret Mackay, (1802- ) Hymnal: The Alleluia #156b (1880) First Line: Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep Languages: English Tune Title: [Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]

Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep

Author: Margaret Mackay Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #244c (1894) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes. 2 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet To be for such a slumber meet; With holy confidence to sing That death hath lost its painful sting. 3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest; No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour That manifests the Saviour's power. 4 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, for me May such a blissful refuge be! Securely shall my ashes lie, Waiting the summons from on high. 5 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be; But there is still a blessèd sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep. Amen. Topics: Burial of the Dead Languages: English Tune Title: [Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]

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Margaret Mackay

1802 - 1887 Author of "Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Mackay, Margaret, was born in 1802, and the only daughter of Captain Robert Mackay, of Hedgefield, Inverness. She was married in 1820 to Major William Mackay, of the 68th Light Infantry (afterwards Lt. Colonel) a distinguished officer who died in 1845. Mrs. Mackay died at Cheltenham, Jan. 5, 1887. In addition to various prose works Mrs. Mackay published Thoughts Redeemed; or Lays of Leisure Hours, 1854, which contained 72 original hymns and poems. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

S. B. Saxton

Composer of "[Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892