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Hymn: Is it a long way off (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Is it a long way off

Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 6s and 4s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1153

Page Number: 689, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Is it a long way off?

O, no! a few more years,

A few more bitter tears,-

We shall be there.

Sometimes the way seems long,

Our comforters all go,

Wo follows after wo,

Care after care.



O! brethren dear, how weak, 

How faint and weak we are!

Yet Jesus leads us far

Through tangled ways

Into the very heart

Of this dark wilderness,

Where dangers thickest press,

and Satan strays.



But he is strong and wise,

And we, his children blind,

Must trust his thoughtful mind

And tender care.

So gentle is his love,

We may be sure that sight 

Would show us all is right,

And answer'd prayer.



'Tis no uncertain way

We tread, for Jesus still 

Leads with unerring skill

Where'er we roam;

And from the desert wild

Soom shall our path emerge,

And land us on the verge

Of our dear home.