Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: We are on our journey home
Topic: Heaven/Home There
Writer: Charles Beecher
Composer: J Husband
Meter: PM
Tune: Mt Blanc
Hymn Number: 560
Page Number: 199, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWE are on our journey home,
Where Christ, our Lord, is gone;
We shall meet around His throne,
When He makes His people one,
In the new Jerusalem.
We can see that distant home,
Though clouds rise dark between;
Faith views the radiant dome,
And luster flashes keen
From the new Jerusalem.
O holy! heav'nly home!
O rest eternal there!
When shall the exiles come,
Where they cease from earthly care,
In the new Jerusalem?
Our hearts are breaking now
Those mansions fair to see;
O Lord! Thy heavens bow,
And raise us up with Thee,
To the new Jerusalem.