Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: Death/Not to be Feared
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: CM with chorus
Tune: Going Home
Hymn Number: 643
Page Number: 238, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJERUSALEM, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys, when shall I see?--CHO.
Chorus.--We're going home, we're going home,
We're going home to live forever.
Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold!
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are paved with gold.--CHO.
Thy gardens and thy plesant greens
My study long have been;
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen.--CHO.
If heaven be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence?
What folly 'tis that I should dread
To die and go from hence!--CHO.
Reach down, reach down Thine arms of grace,
Where cause me to ascend
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end.--CHO.