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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Oh where can the soul find relief from its foes (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Oh where can the soul find relief from its foes

Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> Dutton

Composer:

Meter: 11s and 5

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1166

Page Number: 701, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Oh where can the soul find relief from its foes?

A shelter of safety, a home of repose?

Can earth's highest summit, or deepest hid vale,

Give a refuge nor sorrow, nor sin can asail?

No, no! there's no home!

There's no home on earth-the soul has no home.



Shall it leave the low eath, and soar to the sky,

And seek for a home in the mansions on high!

In the bright realms of bliss with a dwelling be given,

And the soul find a home in the glory of heaven?

Yes, yes! there's a home!

There's a home in high heaven-the soul has a home.



O! holy and sweet its rest shall be there!

Free for ever from sin, and from sorrow and care;

And the loud hallelujahs of angels shall rise,

To welcome the soul to its home in the skies!

Home, home! home of the soul!

The bosom of God is the home of the soul!