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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: I have a home above (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: I have a home above

Topic: Heaven/Home There

Writer: H Bennett

Composer: St Alban's Tune Book

Meter: SM

Tune: Vigil

Hymn Number: 450

Page Number: 154, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I HAVE a home above,

From sin and sorrow free;

A mansion which eternal love

Design'd and form'd for me.



My Father's gracious hand

Has built this sweet abode;

From everlasting it was plann'd--

My dwelling-place with God.



My Saviour's precious blood

Has made my title sure;

He pass'd thro' death's dark, raging flood

To make my rest secure.



The Comforter has come,

The earnest has been giv'n;

He leads me onward to the home

Reserv'd for me in heav'n.