Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal ‎#629

629. O Happy Band of Pilgrims

1 O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread
With Jesus as your fellow,
To Jesus as your Head!

2 O happy if ye labor
As Jesus did for men;
O happy if ye hunger
As Jesus hungered then!

3 The trials that beset you,
The sorrows ye endure,
The manifold temptations
That death alone can cure,

4 What are they but His jewels
Of right celestial worth?
What are they but the ladder
Set up to heaven on earth?

5 O happy band of pilgrims,
Look upward to the skies,
Where such a light affliction
Shall win you such a prize!

Text Information

• First Line: O happy band of pilgrims, If onward ye will tread
• Title: O Happy Band of Pilgrims
• From: Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 800-883) (c. 840)
• Translator: John M. Neale (1818-1866) (1862)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Scripture:
  1 Peter 1:6-7
• Topic: Christan Life: Pilgrimage

Tune Information

• Name: VULPIUS
• Arr. from: Melchior Vulpius (1560-1616)
• Meter: 7.6.7.6.
• Incipit: 13234 53654 32356
• Key: E♭ Major