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Hymn: Christian the vision before thee is glorious (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Christian the vision before thee is glorious

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: A Hayden

Composer:

Meter: PM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1097

Page Number: 649, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Christian, the vision before thee is glorious,

The earth shall allure thy tried spirit no more;

Thou wast in the day of thy trial victorious,

Secure now at last, thy temptations are o'er.



Hard was the strife, but the strong one in battle,

Has been thy defender, and vanquished thy foes;

And heaven stood by thee to help thee in trouble,

And joyed when the sound of thy triumph arose.



High was the anthem those raptures revealing,

Ten thousand celestials the chorus prolong;

But louder the strains of the ransom'd are pealing,

And glory is swelling the conqueror's song.