Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: There is no night in heaven
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1143
Page Number: 681, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere is no night in heaven:
In that blest world above
Work never can bring weariness,
For work itself is love.
There is no night in heaven:
Yet nightly round the bed,
Of every Christian wanderer,
faith has an angel tread.
There is no grief in heaven:
For life is one glad day,
And tears are of those former things,
Which all have passed away.
There is no grief in heaven:
Yet angels from on high,
On golden pinions earthward glide,
The Christian's tears to dry.
There is no want in heaven:
The Lamb of God supplies
Life's tree of twelvefold fruitage still,
Life's spring which never dries.
There is no want in heaven:
Yet in a desert land
The fainting prophet was sustained
And fed by angel's hand.
There is no sin in heaven:
Behold that blessed throng;
All holy in their spotless robes,
All holy is their song.
There is no sin in heaven:
Here who from sin is free?
Yet angels aid us in our strife
For Christ's true liberty.
There is no death in heaven:
For they who gain that shore
Have won their immortality,
And they can die no more.
There is no death in heaven:
But, when the Christian dies,
The angels wait his parting soul,
And waft it to the skies.