Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Come let us join our friends above
Topic: Aspiration to Happiness
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: William Bradbury
Meter: CM double
Tune: Oriola
Hymn Number: 640
Page Number: 237, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, let us join our friends above
Who have obtain'd the prize,
And, on the eagle wings of love,
To joy celestial rise.
Let saints below in concert sing
With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King
In heav'n and earth are one:
One family--we dwell in Him;
One church--above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.
One army of the living God,
To His command we bow;
Part of the host have cross'd the flood,
And part are crossing now.
E'en now to their eternal home
Some happy spirits fly;
And we are to the margin come,
Expecting soon to die.
Dear Saviour! be our constant guide;
Then, when the word is giv'n,
Bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
And land us safe in heav'n.