The Hymnal and Order of Service ‎#520

520. Forever with the Lord!

1 Forever with the Lord!
Amen; so let it be;
Life from the dead is in that word,
And immortality.

2 Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

3 My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near,
At times, to faith's foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!

4 And when my latest breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Forever with the Lord!
• Title: Forever with the Lord!
• Author: James Montgomery, (1771-1854).
• Meter: S. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1937
• Scripture:
  1 Thessalonians 4:17
• Topic: Hope and Aspiration

Tune Information

• Name: THATCHER
• Composer: Georg Frederick Händel (1732, arr.)
• Meter: S. M.
• Key: G Major