Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Come let us join our friends above
Topic: Christ/Prophet Priest and King
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer:
Meter: CM double
Tune: Metropolis
Hymn Number: 339
Page Number: 112, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, let us join our friends above
Who have obtained the prize,
And, on the eagle wings of love,
To joys celestial rise.
Let saints below in concert sing
With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King
In heaven and earth are one:
One family-we dwell in him;
One church-above, beneath-
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death;
One army of the living God,
To his command we bow-
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
E'en now to their eternal home
Some happy spirits fly;
And we are to the margin come,
Expecting soon to die.
Dear Saviour, be our constant guide;
Then, when the word is given,
Bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
And land us safe in heaven.