We Have Met Dear Friends and Brethren

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Lyrics from A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1841

Hymn 301
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1. We have met dear friends and brethren
Our respects to pay to one,
Who has left this world of sorrow,
And to glory he has gone.

2. Death once more has been amongst us;
Our beloved friend is gone
Who was near and dear unto us;
Thus we're falling one by one.

3. Let us drop on this occasion,
Tears of sympathetic love,
And thus mourn with the relations,
For our friend, who lives above.

4. Since our friend has gone to glory,
Though we mourn, yet we'll rejoice;
For he sought the way to heaven,
And made Jesus Christ his choice.

5. To all those who sleep in Jesus,
Death is sweet and hath no sting;
But to haughty stubborn sinners,
Death, of terrors, is the king.

6. Then poor sinners stop and ponder
Well your steps as you pass on,
Lest you end your days in sorrow,
When your fancied joys are gone.