MUSIC. SARUM. The tune was composed for the Sarum Hymnal, 1869, for these words by Bishop How. It is also known as “St. Philip” and “For All the Saints.”
For comments on the composer, Joseph Barnby, see [Hymn 21].
318. We cannot think of them as dead
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
Written in 1876 after the death by drowning of a young member of the church of which the author was minister.
For comments on the author, Frederick L. Hosmer, see [Hymn 72].
MUSIC. ST. FLAVIAN is from the English Psalter of 1562 which was printed by John Day in London. The present is the first half, with some alterations, of the tune set to Psalm [132].
319. Come, let us join our friends above
Charles Wesley, 1707-88
The first of a group of Funeral Hymns, published in 1759. It sets forth the assurance that friends gone before are not lost to those who mourn,