For Those We Love Within the Veil

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For those we love within the veil

Author: William Charter Piggott (1931)
Tune: ES IST KEIN TAG
Published in 19 hymnals

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1 For those we love within the veil,
Who once were comrades of our way,
We thank thee, Lord; for they have won
To cloudless day.

2 And life for them is life indeed,
The splendid goal of earth’s strait race;
And where no shadows intervene
They see thy face.

3 Free from the fret of mortal years,
And knowing now thy perfect will,
With quickened sense and heightened joy
They serve thee still.

4 O fuller, sweeter is that life,
And larger, ampler is the air;
Eye cannot see nor heart conceive
The glory there!

5 There are no tears within their eyes;
With love they keep perpetual tryst;
And praise and work and rest are one
With thee, O Christ.

Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #878

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Author: William Charter Piggott

William Charter Piggott was pastor of the Bunyan Meeting Church in Bedford from 1905-1911. He was 33 when he began his ministry at the Bunyan Meeting. He left to become an assistant to Charles Sylvester Horne at Whitefield’s Church, Tottenham Court Rd, London. His ministry was especially successful among young people. email to Hymnary information from Bunyan Meeting Bedford 1650-1950 by H B Tibbutt. Go to person page >

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