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ANOTHER SIX DAYS' WORK

The same words as 5 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.

33 words changed · 2 stanzas only in Millennial Harp #75

Verse 1



Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day thy God has blest; Another six days' work is done, Another Sabbath is begun.

Verse 1

Another six days' work is done,
Another Sabbath is begun;
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day thy God has blessed.

Verse 2

Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns
So sweet a rest to wearied minds;
Provides a blest foretaste of heaven On
this day more than all the seven.

Verse 2

Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigned
This day of rest for all mankind;
Through Christian lands from shore to shore,
Come, help us praise Him more and more.

Verse 3

O that our thoughts and thanks may rise As grateful incense to the skies; And draw from Christ that sweet repose, Which none but he that feels it knows.

Not in this version

Verse 4

This heavenly calm within the breast Is the blest pledge of glorious rest, Which for the church of God remains, The end of cares, the end of pains.

Not in this version

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