For the Great Departed

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For the great departed

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: IN MEMORIAM (Mallary)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 For the great departed,
Gone to long reward,
The brave, the lion-hearted;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!
For Calv’ry’s love that bought them,
For sovreign grace that sought them,
To high achievement wrought them;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!

2 For the great departed,
Gone to long reward,
The brave, the lion-hearted;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!
For watchwords, bravely spoken,
For error’s phalanx broken,
The cross their lifted token:—
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!

3 For the great departed,
Gone to long reward,
The brave, the lion-hearted;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!
Though onward gone before us,
Up heights high tow’ring o’er us,
To them, God shall restore us:
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!

4 For the great departed,
Gone to long reward,
The brave, the lion-hearted;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!
No more their hearts shall fail them,
No more shall doubts assail them,
Triumphant grace avail them!
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!

5 For the great departed,
Gone to long reward,
The brave, the lion-hearted;
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!
Earth’s farewell words, we say them,
with kindred dust we lay hem;
Lo, heaven in white array them:
We praise, we praise Thee, Lord!

Source: Hymns of Consecration and Faith #346

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Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	For the great departed
Title:	For the Great Departed
Author:	Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1902
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.