The Christian — Comfort and Encouragement

From lips divine, like healing balm

No. 704
Words William H. Burleigh.
Singing key F major
4 stanzas

Sung to HERBERT (hymn 724)

Words

From lips divine, like healing balmTo hearts oppressed and torn,The heavenly consolation fell,"Blessed are they that mourn."

Unto the hopes by sorrow crushedA noble faith succeeds;And life, by trials furrowed, bearsThe fruit of loving deeds.

How rich, how sweet, how full of strengthOur human spirits are,Baptized into the sanctitiesOf suffering and of prayer!

Yes, heavenly wisdom, love divine,Breathed through the lips which said,"O blessed are the hearts that mourn;They shall be comforted."

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «704» (large) with the reference line «724, 889, 669.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 724, 889 or 669), at the top of the right column of p. 229; «William H. Burleigh.» in italics after stanza 4. The first word is set «FROM», the «F» as a full capital and «ROM» in small capitals; written in ordinary type here. The stanza numbers are printed without a period («1» … «4»); written «1.» … here as in the other deliveries of this book. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («succeeds ;», «prayer !», «mourn ;») and after the opening quotation marks; it is closed up here, and the quotation marks are written straight. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., 8.6.8.6, like the referenced tunes). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.