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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: How happy every child of grace (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: How happy every child of grace

Topic: The Gospel/Remission of Sins

Writer: C Wesley

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 404

Page Number: 246, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

How happy every child of grace,

Who knows his sins forgiven!

This earth, he cries, is not my place,

I seek my home in heaven.



A country far from mortal sight,

Yet O, by faith I see

The land of rest, the saints' delight,

The heaven prepared for me.



O, what a blessed hope is ours!

While here on earth we stay,

We more than taste the heavenly powers,

And ante-date that day.



We feel the resurrection near,

Our life in Christ concealed,

And with his glorious presence here

Our earthen vessels filled.



O, would he all of heaven bestow!

Then like our Lord we'll rise;

Our bodies, fully ransomed, go

To take the glorious prize.



On him with rapture then I'll gaze,

Who bought the bliss for me,

And shout and wonder at his grace,

Through all eternity.