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How Sweet the Light of Sabbath Eve

Words by James Edmeston (1791–1867) · Public domain

The words

  1. Stanza 1. How sweet the light of Sabbath eve!How soft the sunbeams ling’ring there!For these blest hours the world I leave,Wafted on wings of faith and pray’r.

  2. Stanza 2. Season of rest! the tranquil soulFeels the sweet calm, and melts in love;And while these sacred moments roll,Faith sees a smiling heav’n above.

  3. Stanza 3. Nor will our days of toil be long;Our pilgrimage will soon be trod;And we shall join the ceaseless song,The endless Sabbath of our God.

Text as printed in Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged), 1908, no. 778. Public domain. www.praylock.com/hymnal/how-sweet-the-light-of-sabbath-eve

About this text

Words
James Edmeston, 1791–1867
Source
Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged) (1908), no. 778. See the 1908 page
Credited in 1908 as
J. Edmeston
This wording in print by
1867 (The Book of Worship)
Public domain
Printed in 1908; the writer died in 1867, more than 100 years ago.

Notes on this text

  • Headed “Sabbath Eve” in 1908, with Lowell Mason’s tune MALVERN. It is not in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985).
  • The exclamation mark after “there” is worn in this copy of the scan.

Index entry: Hymnary.org. Checked against the page scan on .

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