I first heard this hymn at a funeral held in a Lutheran church for my friend's father. He was Swedish and this hymn tune is a Swedish melody. The second verse is the one that makes it appropriate for a funeral:
Neither life nor death can ever from the Lord his children sever; Unto thme his grace he showeth, and their sorrows all he knoweth.
I don't remember singing this for choir, but there are notes in my personal hymnal that has it organized like this:
Verse 1: SATB
Verse 2: Women in unison
Verse 3: Unison with Free accompaniment. I don't know if this hymn has a free accompaniment from T. T. Noble, or if I wrote that because this well-known hymn tune would somewhere have a free accompaniment available.
"SING * PLAY * LOVE"...My thoughts and memories as I play one hymn each day from the hymnbook of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" during 2012.
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