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ENDLESS
DISTRESS.
8s,
11s.
Original.
"Prepare
to
meet
thy
God."-Amos
4:12.
Key
of
F
Major.
Floyd's
Primitive
Hymn
Book,
No.
382.
By
Rev.
Edmund
Dumas.
Alto
by
S
M.
Denson,
1911.
1
While
sor
-
rows
en
-
com
-
pass
me
round.
And
end
-
less
dis
-
tress
-
es
I
see.
As
-
ton
-
ish'd,
I
cry,
can a
2
O
may
I
pre
-
pare
for
that
day,
When
Christ
shall
de
-
seend
from
a
-
bove,
Be
filled
with
his
pres
-
ence,
Go
mor - tal
be
found,
Sur
-
round
-
ed
witn
trou
-
bles
like
me,
Sur -
round
-
ed
with
trou
-
bles
like
me.
shout
-ing
a
-
way
To
the
arms
of
my
heav'n
-
ly
love.
To
the
arms
of
my
heav'n
-
1y
love.
This
tune
was
composed
by
Rev.
Edmund
Dumas,
1859.
He
was
a
Primitive
Baptist
minister,
who
helped
at
one
time
to
revise
The
Sacred
Harp;
was
for
a
long
time
Ordinary
of
Monroe
County,
and
died
at
Forsyth,
Ga.,
about
25
years
ago'
See
further
statements
about
him
under
his
various
tunes
in
this
volume.
The
hymn,
or
rather
the
stanzas,
in
this
tune
were
originally
taken
from
Floyd's
Primitive
Hymn
Book,
No.
382.
It
also
appears
in
Mercer's
Cluster,
by
Mercer,
1823,
page
342.