Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: This is not my place of resting
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1142
Page Number: 681, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThis is not my place of resting,
Mine a city yet to come;
Onward to it I am hasting-
On to my eternal home.
In it all is light and glory,
O'er it shines a nightless day;
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse has passed away.
There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us,
By the steams of life along;
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.
Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more be sad or weary,
Never, never sin again.