Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
Words: James Edmeston, Hymns for the Chamber of Sickness (London: Religious Tract Society, 1844), page 12.
Music: Grosvenor (Wesley) Samuel S. Wesley, European Psalmist 1872 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good picture of Edmeston (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Change is written everywhere,
Time and death o’er all are ranging;
Seasons, creatures, all declare,
Man is mortal, earth is changing.
Life and all its treasures seem
Like a sea in constant motion;
Thanks for an eternal beam
Shining o’er the pathless ocean.
One by one, although each name
Providence or death will sever;
Jesus Christ is still the same
Yesterday, today, forever.