'Mid Scenes of Confusion and Creature Complaints

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'Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints

Author: David Denham
Tune: HOME (Bishop)
Published in 489 hymnals

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1 ’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,
How sweet to my soul is communion with saints!
To find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,
And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.

Refrain:
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
Prepare me dear Saviour, for glory my home.

2 Sweet bonds that unite all the children of peace1
And thrice precious Jesus whose love cannot cease!
Tho, oft from Thy presence, in sadness I roam,
I long to behold Thee in glory at home! [Refrain]

3 I sigh from this body of sin to be free,
Which hinders my joy and communion with Thee;
Tho now my temptations like billows may foam,
All, all will be peace when I'm with Thee at home. [Refrain]

Source: The Christian Harmony: in the seven-syllable character note system of music;... 2010 Revised Edition #351

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Author: David Denham

Denham, David, born 1791, was the son of Thos. Denham, a Baptist minister in the East of London. He began to preach when very young, and in 1810 became pastor of the Baptist Church at Horsell Common. In 1816 removed to Plymouth, in 1826 to Margate, and in 1834 to the Baptist Church in Unicorn Yard, Tooley Street, Southward. Ill-health compelled him to resign his charge in London, and he sojourned for a time at Cheltenham and Oxford. He died in 1848 at Yeovil, in Somerset, and was buried in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London. In 1837 he published a collection of hymns, as:— The Saints' Melody. A New Selection of upwards of One Thousand Hymns, Founded upon the Doctrines of Distinguishing Grace, and adapted to every part of the Christ… Go to person page >

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First Line:	'Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints
Title:	'Mid Scenes of Confusion and Creature Complaints
Author:	David Denham
Meter:	11.11.11.11 with refrain
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Home, home! sweet, sweet home!
Copyright:	Public Domain
Article:	Home, Sweet Home by Paul Hammond (from "The Hymn")

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Notes

Midst scenes of confusion and creature complaints. D. Denham. [Heaven Anticipated.] This hymn appeared in the 1826 Appendix to J. Rees's Collection, No. 168, in 5 stanzas and again in Denham's Saint's Melody, &c, 1837, No. 740, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It is given in a few collections in Great Britain and America.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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