Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: We wait for thee all glorious One
Topic: Present and Future/Second Advent
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: T Perkins
Tune: We Wait for Thee
Hymn Number: 730
Page Number: 268, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWe wait for thee, all glorious One,
We look for thine appearing,
We bear thy name, and on thy throne
We see thy presence cheering,
Faith even now
Uplifts its brow,
And sees the Lord descending,
And with him bliss unending.
We wait for thee, thro' days forlorn,
In patient self-denial;
We know that thou our grief hast borne,
Upon thy cross of tri-al.
And well may we
Submit with thee
To bear the cross and love it,
Until thy hand remove it.
We wait for thee; already thou
Hast all our heart's submission;
And, though the spirit sees thee now,
We long for open vision;
When ours shall be
Sweet rest with thee,
And pure, unfading pleasure,
And life in endless measure.
We wait for thee in certain hope-
The time will soon be over;
With child-like longing we look up,
The glory to discover.
Oh, bliss! to share
Thy triumph there,
When home, with joy and singing,
The Lord his saints is bringing!