From the recording Dearest Home
Civil War Era hymn by Samuel Young Harner / Rev. J. W. Dadmun, recorded in Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, PA, the site of a Union Hospital during and after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. Martha Ehler, a citizen nurse who served in the hospital there reports that the nurses sang this hymn with the wounded men in their care. Accompanied by reed organ and flugelhorn. Arr. © 2013 Dearest Home
Lyrics
REST FOR THE WEARY
1. In the Christian’s home in glory, There remains a land of rest,
There my Saviour’s gone before me, To fulfill my soul’s request;
Refrain; There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary,
There is rest for the weary There is rest for you–
On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden,
Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you.
2. Pain and sickness ne’er shall enter, Grief nor woe my lot shall share;
But, in that celestial center, I a crown of life shall wear. Refrain
3. Death itself shall then be vanquished, And his sting shall be withdrawn;
Shout for gladness, O ye ransomed! Hail with joy the rising morn. Refrain