Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: This is not my place of resting
Topic: God in Providence
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Dorrnance
Hymn Number: 54
Page Number: 023, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThis is not my place of resting,
Mine, a city yet to come;
Onward to it I am hasting--
On to my eternal home.
In it, all is light and glory,
O'er it shines a nightless day:
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse has passed away.
There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us,
By the streams of life along;
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.
Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more be sad or weary,
Never, never sin again.