Grandma's Hymns

Tonight, after Grandma passed, Loree started looking through some old paperwork and came across something special. It was two sheets of paper where Grandma and her late husband had written some of their final requests. One, being the songs they would like played at their passing. Here is what Grandma chose aa a young 37 year old woman. She lived 50 more years after she wrote this! Have you ever heard more perfect and beautiful lyrics? It is so like Grandma to take care of this so those she loved wouldn't have to find the perfect hymn to play.

FARTHER ALONG

Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder

Why it should be thus all the day long;

While there are others living about us,

Never molested, though in the wrong.

Refrain:

Farther along we’ll know more about it,

Farther along we’ll understand why;

Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,

We’ll understand it all by and by.

Sometimes I wonder why I must suffer,

Go in the rain, the cold, and the snow,

When there are many living in comfort,

Giving no heed to all I can do.
Tempted and tried, how often we question

Why we must suffer year after year,

Being accused by those of our loved ones,

E’en though we’ve walked in God’s holy fear.
Often when death has taken our loved ones,

Leaving our home so lone and so drear,

Then do we wonder why others prosper,

Living so wicked year after year.
“Faithful till death,” saith our loving Master;

Short is our time to labor and wait;

Then will our toiling seem to be nothing,

When we shall pass the heavenly gate.
Soon we will see our dear, loving Savior,

Hear the last trumpet sound through the sky;

Then we will meet those gone on before us,

Then we shall know and understand why.

WHEN THEY RING THOSE GOLDEN BELLS

There's a land beyond the river that we call the sweet forever

And we only reach that shore by faith, you see

Yes I want to see my Jesus

Shake His hand and have Him greet us

When they ring those golden bells for you and me

Don't you hear the bells a-ringin'

Can't you hear the angels singin'

It's a glory hallelujah jubilee

In the far off great forever just beyond the shining river

When they ring those golden bells for you and me

When our days have known their number

When in death we sweetly slumber

When the Kingdom mends the spirit to be free

There'll be no more stormy weather

We'll live peacefully together

When they ring those golden bells for you and me

Don't you hear the bells a-ringin'

Can't you hear the angels singin'

It's a glory hallelujah jubilee

In the far off great forever just beyond the shining river

When they ring those golden bells for you and me

When they ring those golden bells for you and me