Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: We are on our journey home
Topic: Heaven
Writer: Charles Beecher
Composer: J Husband
Meter: PM
Tune: Mt Blanc
Hymn Number: 538
Page Number: 189, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWE ARE on our journey home,
Where Christ, our Lord, is gone;
We shall meet around his throne,
When he makes his people one,
In the new Jerusalem.
We can see that distant home,
Though clouds rise dark between;
Faith views the radiant dome,
And a luster flashes keen
From the new Jerusalem.
O holy, heavenly home!
O rest eternal there!
When shall the exiles come
Where they cease from earthly care,
In the new Jerusalem?
Our hearts are breaking now
Those mansions fair to see:
O Lord, thy heavens bow,
And raise us up with thee-
To the new Jerusalem.