3 My Saviour's precious blood 4 5 He pass'd through death's dark raging flood To make my rest secure. The Comforter is come, The earnest has been given ; Reserved for me in heaven. Bright angels guard my way, And watching round me night and day, 6 Loved ones have gone before, 7 Thy love, most gracious Lord, 8 Till thou shalt speak the gladdening word, And then through endless days 236 1 2 We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Rom v. 1, 2. THERE is no night in heaven; In that blest world above Work never can bring weariness, There is no grief in heaven; For life is one glad day; And tears are of those former things [S.M. 3 4 5 There is no sin in heaven; There is no death in heaven; And they can die no more. Lord Jesu, be our Guide; Till night and grief and sin and death 2 3 Amen, so let it be. Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. ! My Father's house on high, Jerusalem above. Yet clouds will intervene, Like Noah's dove I flit between 4 Anon the clouds depart, The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o'er my gladden'd heart I hear at morn and even, At noon and midnight hour, That shout of victory. Once more, For ever with the Lord; 238 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; [P.M. that glory may dwell in our land.-Ps. lxxxv. 9. 1 THE sands of time are sinking, And glory, glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's land. 2 There the red Rose of Sharon, While by its fragrance fann'd, 3 0, Christ he is the Fountain, 4 With mercy and with judgment I'll bless the Heart that plann'd, 5 I shall sleep sound in Jesus, 6 The bride eyes not her garment, But on my King of grace;- 239 Here have we no continuing city, but we seek [7s. 6s. one to come.-. -Heb. xiii. 14. PART I. 1 BRIEF life is here our portion; brief sorrow, short-lived care; The life that knows no ending, the tearless life, is there. O happy retribution: short toil, eternal rest: For mortals and for sinners a mansion with the bless'd. 2 And now we fight the battle, but then shall wear the crown Of full and everlasting and passionless renown ; But he, whom now we trust in, shall then be seen and known; And they, that know and see him, shall have him for their own. 3 The morning shall awaken, the shadows shall decay, And each true-hearted servant shall shine as doth the day: There God, our King and Portion, in fulness of his grace, Shall we behold for ever, and worship face to face. PART II. 1 For thee, O dear, dear Country, mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, beholding thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, and love, and life, and rest. 2 O one, O only mansion, O Paradise of joy, Where tears are ever banish'd, and smiles have no alloy; The Lamb is all thy splendour, the Crucified thy praise; His laud and benediction thy ransom❜d people raise. 3 With jasper glow tay bulwarks, thy streets with emeralds blaze; The sardius and the topaz unite in thee their rays; Thine ageless walls are bonded with amethyst unpriced; The saints build up its fabric, and the Cornerstone is Christ. |