Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: We are on our journey home
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: C Beecher
Composer:
Meter: 7s and 6s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1141
Page Number: 680, 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 glory shining far
From the never-setting Sun!
O trembling morning star!
our journey's almost done
To 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.