Sweet Rest

Sweet is the rest that waits On yonder shining shore

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett
Tune: [Sweet is the rest that waits]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett

Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in… Go to person page >

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First Line: Sweet is the rest that waits On yonder shining shore
Title: Sweet Rest
Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Sweet rest, sweet rest
Copyright: Public Domain

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