Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy
Topic: The Gospel/Invitations
Writer: R Collier
Composer:
Tune:
Hymn Number: 331
Page Number: 207, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWe're bound for the land of the pure and the holy,
The home of the happy, the kingdom of love,
Ye wanderers from God, in the broad road of folly,
O say, will you go to the Eden above.
Will you go, will you go,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
In that blessed land neither sighing nor anguish,
Can breathe in the fields where the glorified move.
Ye heart-burdened ones, who in misery languish,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
Will you go, etc.
Nor fraud, not deceit, nor the hand of oppression,
Can injure the dwellers in that holy grove;
No wickedness there, not a shade of transgression;
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
Will you go, etc.
Each saint has a mansion prepared and all furnished,
Ere from this clay house he is summoned to move;
The gates and its towers with glory are burnished;
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
Will you go, etc.
March on, happy pilgrims, that land is before you,
And soon its ten thousand delights we shall prove;
Yes, soon we shall walk o'er the hills of bright glory,
And drink the pure joys of the Eden above.
We will go, we will go,
O say, we will go to the Eden above.
And yet, guilty sinner, we would not forsake thee,
We halt yet a moment as onward we move;
O come to thy Lord, in his arms he will take thee,
And bear thee along to the Eden above.
Will you go, will you go,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?