Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Come let us join our friends above
Topic: The Church/Love Unity and Fellowship
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: William Bradbury
Meter: CM
Tune: Brown
Hymn Number: 359
Page Number: 132, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome, let us join our friends above
Who have obtained the prize,
And, on the eagle wings of love,
To joy celestial rise.
Let saints below in concert sing
With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King
In heaven and earth are one:
One family-we dwell in him;
One church-above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream-
The narrow stream of death.
One army of the living God,
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
Even now to their eternal home
Some happy spirits fly;
And we are to the margin come,
Expecting soon to die.
Dear Savior! be our constant guide;
Then, when the word is given,
Bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
And land us safe in heaven.