Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: O there's a better world on high (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O there's a better world on high

Topic: The Gospel/The Hope of Eternal Life

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 433

Page Number: 264, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O, there's a better world on high;

Hope on, thou pious breast;

Faint not, thou traveler; on the sky

Thy weary feet shall rest.



Anguish may rend each vital part;

Poor man, thy strength how frail!

Yet heaven's own strength shall shield thy heart,

When flesh and heart shall fail.



Through death's dark vale, of deepest shade

Thy feet mush surely go;

Yet there, e'en there, walk undismayed;

'T is thy last scene of wo.



Thy God -- and with the tenderest hand --

Shall guard the traveler through;

"Hail!" shalt thou cry; "hail!" promised land!

And wilderness, adieu!"



O Father, make our souls thy care,

And bring us safe to thee;

Where'er thou art -- we ask not where --

But there t' is heaven to be.