Hymn
Closing Conference
- Writer
- Charles Wesley
Blest be the dear, uniting love,
That will not let us part!
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.
Join'd in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints, we go;
And still in Jesu's footsteps tread,
And shew his praise below.
O may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside,
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucify'd!
Closer and closer let us cleave
To his belov'd embrace;
Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.
Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death can part.
But let us hasten to the day
Which shall our flesh restore;
When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more!
Closing Conference — Text from A Pocket Hymn Book, 1791. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/closing-conference
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Closing Conference?
The words of Closing Conference were written by Charles Wesley; the version here was published in 1791. The library holds 105 more hymns by Charles Wesley, including Evening and The Christian Soldier.
Is Closing Conference public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from A Pocket Hymn Book, published in 1791. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the meter of Closing Conference?
Closing Conference is in Common Meter (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same meter can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, The Death and Burial of a Saint, An Evening Psalm and King of Saints.