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WILL YOU GO
Meter: 12.11.12.11 with refrain Appears in 21 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Unknown Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12333 34652 431 Used With Text: We're Bound for the Land of the Pure
WILL YOU GO
Will you go, will you go
Author: Anonymous Appears in 121 hymnals First Line: We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy Lyrics: 1 We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy,
The home of the happy, the kingdom of love;
Ye wanderers from God, in the broad road of folly,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
Chorus:
Will you go, will you go,
Will you go, will you go?
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
2 In that blessed land, neither sighing nor anguish
Can breathe in the fields where the glorified rove:
Ye heart-burdened ones, who in misery languish,
O say, will you go to the Eden above? [Chorus]
3 Nor fraud, nor deceit, nor the hand of oppression,
Can injure the dwellers in that holy grove;
No wickedness there, not a shade of transgression;
O say, will you go to the Eden above? [Chorus]
4 No poverty there, no, the saints are all wealthy,
The heirs of His glory whose nature is love;
No sickness can reach them, that country is healthy;
O say, will you go to the Eden above? [Chorus]
5 And yet, guilty sinner, we would not forsake thee,
We halt yet a moment as onward we move;
O, come to thy Lord! in his arms he will take thee,
And bear thee along to the Eden above. [Chorus]
Topics: The Sinner Warning and Invitation Used With Tune: WILL YOU GO?
Will you go, will you go
We're Bound for the Land
Author: Wm. Hunter Hymnal: The Gospel Trumpeter #163 (1907) First Line: We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy Refrain First Line: Will you go? Languages: English Tune Title: [We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy]
We're Bound for the Land
We're Bound for the Land of the Pure
Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Church Hymnal #368 (1941) Meter: 12.11.12.11 with refrain First Line: We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy Refrain First Line: Will you go Topics: The Christian Life Pilgrimage Languages: English Tune Title: WILL YOU GO
We're Bound for the Land of the Pure
We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy
Hymnal: Kind Words #67 (1871) Lyrics: 1 We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy,
The home of the happy, the kingdom of love,
Ye wand'rers from God in the broad road of folly,
O say will you go to the Eden above?
Chorus:
Will you go, will you go, will you go, will you go,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
2 In that blessed land neither sighing nor anguish
Can breathe in the fields where the glorified rove;
Ye heart-burden'd ones, who in misery languish,
O say will you go to the Eden above?
Chorus:
Will you go, will you go, will you go, will you go,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
3 Each saint has a mansion prepar'd and all furnish'd,
Ere from this clay house he is summon'd to move;
Its gates and its towers with glory are burnish'd;
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
Chorus:
Will you go, will you go, will you go, will you go,
O say, will you go to the Eden above?
4 March on, happy pilgrims, that land is before you,
And soon its ten thousand delights we shall prove;
Yes, soon we shall walk o'er the hills of bright glory,
And drink the pure joys of the Eden above.
Chorus:
O yes, we will go, we will go, we will go,
O yes, we will go to the Eden above.
Languages: English Tune Title: THE EDEN ABOVE
We're bound for the land of the pure and the holy
Anonymous
Author of "Will you go, will you go" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
William Hunter
1811 - 1877 Person Name: Wm. Hunter Author of "We're Bound for the Land" in The Gospel Trumpeter Hunter, William, D.D, son of John Hunter, was born near Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, May 26, 1811. He removed to America in 1817, and entered Madison College in 1830. For some time he edited the Conference Journal, and the Christian Advocate. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew in Alleghany College: and subsequently Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Alliance, Stark Country, Ohio. He died in 1877. He edited Minstrel of Zion, 1845; Select Melodies, 1851; and Songs of Devotion, 1859. His hymns, over 125 in all, appeared in these works. Some of these have been translated into various Indian languages. The best known are :—
1. A home in heaven; what a joyful thought. Heaven a Home. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Methodist Scholar's Hymn Book, London, 1870, &c.
2. Joyfully, joyfully onward I [we] move. Pressing towards Heaven. This hymn is usually dated 1843. It was given in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and Select Melodies, 1851, and his Songs of Devotion, 1859. It has attained to great popularity. Two forms of the hymn are current, the original, where the second stanza begins "Friends fondly cherished, have passed on before"; and the altered form, where it reads: “Teachers and Scholars have passed on before." Both texts are given in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873, Nos. 79, 80, c.
3. The [My] heavenly home is bright and fair. Pressing towards Heaven. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Cottage Melodies, New York, 1859, and later collections.
4. The Great Physician now is near. Christ the Physician. From his Songs of Devotion, 1859
5. Who shall forbid our grateful[chastened]woe? This hymn, written in 1843, was published in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and in his Songs of Devotion, 1859. [ Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Hunter
J. W. Dadmun
1819 - 1890 Composer of "THE EDEN ABOVE" in Kind Words Rv John William Dadmun USA 1819-1890. Born at Cambridge, MA, he completed his education at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, MA. At 22 he joined the New England Methodist Conference and pastored churches in the towns of Ludlow, Southhampton, South Hadley Falls, Enfield, Ware, Monson, Ipswich, and Lowell, the first Methodist Church and Grace Church, Boston and First Church, Boston Highlands. For a number of years he was also prison Chaplain and Superintendent of schools in the city institutions of Boston at Deer Island, off the coast of Maine. He married Lucy Ann Dutton, and they had seven children: Lucy, Wiletta, Francina, Charles,William and two others. He was initiated into Masonry at the Mt. Lebanon Lodge in Boston, MA, and served as Grand Chaplain and District Deputy Grand Master, which he immensely enjoyed. He rose in ranks within the organization and was instrumental in forming the Mt. Vernon Chapter in Roxbury, MA. He was elected Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of MA. He was Knighted into the De Molay Commandery in Boston, serving several years and rising to Grand Prelate of MA & RI, and attained to a number of other significant positions within the Masons. In later years, after Lucy died, he married Martha Jane Rogers. He collected songs and contributed lyrics to some, publishing a number of song books: “Army & Navy melodies” (1862), “The Melodian” (1862), “Revival melodies” , “The Eolian harp” (1860), “The sacred harmonium”, “new revival melodies”, “Musical string of pearls”, The Masonic choir” (1864), “The humming bird”, “Union league melodies”, “The new golden chain of Sabbath school melodies”, “The olive leaf”, “The timbrel” (1866), and others. Copies of these works have been sold around the world. He died at Boston, MA.
John Perry
J. W. Dadmun
