Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Farewell vain world I'm going home
Topic: View of Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 298
Page Number: 322, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFarewell, vain world, I'm going home,
My Saviour smiles and bids me come;
Bright angels beckon me away,
To sing God's praise in endless day.
I'm glad, (though I was born to die;)
From grief and wo my soul shall fly;
Bright angels shall convey me home,
Away to New Jerusalem.
And when to that bright world I fly,
And join the anthems in the sky,
O then my happy soul shall tell,
My Jesus hath done all things well.
I hope to meet my brethren there,
Who once did join with me in pray'r;
Our mourning time will then be o'er,
And we shall live to die no more.
I'll praise my God while I have breath,
I hope to praise him after death,
I hope to praise him when I die,
And shout salvation as I fly.
We soon shall hear the solemn sound -
Awake ye nations under ground;
Arise and drop your dying shrouds,
And meet King Jesus in the clouds.
There shall I see my glorious God,
And triumph in his blest abode;
My theme, through all eternity,
Shall glory, glory, glory, be.