Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: From whence does this union arise
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 530
Page Number: 270, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFROM whence does this union arise,
That hatred is conquer'd by love?
It fastens our souls with such ties
That distance nor time can remove.
It cannot in Eden be found,
Nor yet in a paradise lost;
It grows in Immanuel's ground,
And Jesus' life's blood it did cost.
My friends once so dear unto me,
Our souls so united in love;
Where Jesus is gone we shall be,
In Yonder blest mansion above.
O! why, then, so loath we to part,
Since there we shall soon meet again?
Engrav'd on Immanuel's heart,
At distance we cannot remain.
And then we shall see that bright day,
And join with the angels above,
Set free from our prisons of clay,
United in Jesus' kind love.
With Jesus we ever shall reign,
And all his bright glory shall see,
Singing hallelujahs-Amen!
Amen! even so let it be.