Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: We are bound for the land of the pure and the holy
Topic: The Gospel Invitations
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: T Cook
Meter: PM
Tune: The Eden Above
Hymn Number: 251
Page Number: 097, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWe are bound for the pure and the holy,
The home of the happy, the kingdom of love;
Ye wanderers from God, in the broad road of folly,
Oh, say, will you go to the Eden above?
Will you go? Will you go?
Oh, say, will you go to the Eden above?
In that blessed land neither sighing nore anguish
Can breathe in the fields where the glorified move.
Ye heart-burdened ones, who in misery languish,
Oh, say, will you go the Eden above?
Will you go? Will you go?
Oh, say, will you go the Eden above?
Nor fraud, nor 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 the Eden above?
Each saint has a mansion prepared and all furnished,
Ere from this clay house he is summoned to move;
Its gates and its towers with glory are burnished--
O say, will you go the Eden above?
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, etc.
And yet, guilty sinner, we would not forsake thee;
We halt yet a moment as onward we move;
Oh come to thy Lord, in his arms he will take thee,
And bear thee along to the Eden above.