Blest hour, when mortal man retires

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Blest hour, when mortal man retires

Author: Thomas Raffles
Published in 124 hymnals

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	Fourteen (14) American Spirituals and Hy…

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	Good and Simple Gifts

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	Great Is Our God! (Contemporary Solos fo…

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1 Blest hour, when mortal man retires
To hold communion with his God,
To send to heaven his warm desires,
And listen to the sacred word.

2 Blest hour, when earthly cares resign
Their empire o'er his anxious breast;
While all around, the calm divine
Proclaims the holy day of rest.

3 Blest hour, when God himself draws nigh,
Well please his people's voice to hear,
To hush the penitential sigh,
And wipe away the mourner's tear.

4 Blest hour! for, where the Lord resorts,
Foretastes of future bliss are given;
And mortals find his earthly courts
The house of God, the gate of heaven.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #216

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Author: Thomas Raffles

Thomas Raffles was born in London in 1788. He studied at Homerton College, and in 1809 became pastor of a Congregational society at Hammersmith. In 1812, he removed to Liverpool, where he was minister in the Great George Street chapel. This position he held for forty-nine years. He died at Liverpool, in 1863. He published several sermons, letters of travel, poems, and hymns for the use of his congregation. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Blest hour, when mortal man retires
Author:	Thomas Raffles
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Genesis 28:17
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Blest hour when mortal man retires. T. Raffles. [Hour of Prayer.] Printed in the Amulet for 1829, pp. 304-5, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. One of the first to adapt it to congregational use was the Rev. J. Bickersteth, who included 4 stanzas in his Psalms & Hymns, 1832, as No. 242. Its modern use in any form in Great Britain is almost unknown, but in America it is one of the most popular of Dr. Raffles’s hymns, and is given in many of the leading collections. The full text is No. 883 in Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, N. Y., 1872. Dr. Hatfield dates the hymn 1828, probably because contributions to the Amulet of 1829 would be sent to the editor in 1828.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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WOODWORTH

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Sacred Praise: for Use in Gospel Meetings, Evangelistic Services ... (1912), p.153

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A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs #87

A Collection of Hymns #115

A Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs; suited to the various kinds of Christian worship; and especially designed for and adapted to the Fraternity of the Brethren... #87

Select Melodies, Comprising the Best of Those Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use not Found in the Standard Methodist Episcopal Hymnal #d25

Select Melodies; Comprising the Best Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Common Use, and not generally found in standard church hymn-books #329

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Handbells JUST AS I AM Through Darkness to Light (Reproducible Hymn Settings for Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost) Through Darkness to Light (Reproducible Hymn Settings for Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost) More Handbells...

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