Text:"Forever with the Lord!"
Author:James Montgomery
Tune:FOREVER WITH THE LORD
Composer:Isaac B. Woodbury

1358. "Forever with the Lord!"

1 "Forever with the Lord!"
Amen, so let it be;
Life for the dead is in that word:
'Tis immortality.
Here in this body pent,
Absent from him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

Chorus:
Nearer home, nearer home,
A day's march nearer home.

2 My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near
At times to faith's aspiring eye,
Thy gold gates appear!
Ah, then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love;
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above. [Chorus]

3 And when the morn shall come
That ends earth's night of pain,
Thro' grace I shall escape the tomb,
And life eternal gain;
Then knowing "as I'm known,"
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat before the throne,
"Forever with the Lord!" [Chorus]

4 "Forever with the Lord!"
Father, if 'tis thy will,
The promise of that faithful word
E'en now to me fulfill.
Be thou at my right hand,
Then I can never fail;
Uphold thou me, and I shall stand,
And in thy strength prevail. [Chorus]

Text Information
First Line: "Forever with the Lord!"
Author: James Montgomery
Refrain First Line: Nearer home, nearer home
Publication Date: 1886
Scripture: ;
Topic: Bible Songs: Reward of Saints
Tune Information
Name: FOREVER WITH THE LORD
Composer: Isaac B. Woodbury
Key: G Major or modal



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