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As when the weary traveler gains

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 205 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint In Prospect of Heaven Lyrics: 1 As when the weary traveler gains The height of some commanding hill, His heart revives, if o'er the plains He sees his home, though distant still,-- 2 So, when the Christian pilgrim views By faith his mansion in the skies, The sight his fainting strength renews, And wings his speed to reach the prize. 3 The hope of heaven his spirit cheers; No more he grieves for sorrows past; Nor any future conflict fears, So he may safe arrive at last. 4 O Lord, on Thee our hopes we stay, To lead us on to Thine abode; Assured Thy love will far o'erpay The hardest labors of the road.

Following Christ

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 787 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint In Prospect of Heaven First Line: Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone Lyrics: 1 Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone, He whom I fix my hopes upon; His track I see--and I'll pursue The narrow way, till Him I view,-- 2 The way the holy prophets went, The road that leads from banishment; The King's highway of holiness; I'll go, for all His paths are peace. 3 This is the way I long have sought, And mourned because I found it not; My grief a burden long has been, Because I could not cease from sin. 4 The more I strove against its power, I sinned and stumbled but the more; Till late I heard my Saviour say, "Come hither, soul, I'm the way." 5 Lo, glad I come, and Thou, dear Lamb, Shalt take me to Thee as I am: Nothing but sin I Thee can give, Nothing but love do I receive. 6 I'll tell to all poor sinners round, What a dear Saviour I have found; I'll point to Thy redeeming blood, And say, "Behold the way to God."

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,416 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint In Prospect of Heaven Lyrics: 1 On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan’s fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. 2 Oh the transporting, rapturous scene, That rises to my sight! Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight! 3 There generous fruits that never fail, On trees immortal grow; There rocks and hills, and brooks and vales, With milk and honey flow. 4 All o’er those wide extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son for ever reigns, And scatters night away. 5 No chilling winds or poisonous breath Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more. 6 When shall I reach that happy place, And be for ever blest? When shall I see my Father’s face, And in His bosom rest. 7 Filled with delight, my raptured soul Would here no longer stay; Though Jordan’s waves around me roll, Fearless I’d launch away.

While on the verge of life I stand

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 88 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint In Prospect of Heaven Lyrics: 1 While on the verge of life I stand, And view the scene on either hand, My spirit struggles with my clay, And longs to wing its flight away. 2 Where Jesus dwells my soul would be, And faints my much-loved Lord to see: Earth, twine no more about my heart! For 'tis far better to depart 3 Come, ye angelic convoys! come, And lead the willing pilgrim home; Ye know the way to Jesus' throne,-- Source of my joys, and of your own. 4 The blissful interview, how sweet! To fall transported at His feet! Raised in His arms to see His face Through the full beamings of His grace! 5 As with a seraph's voice to sing! To fly as on a cherub's wings! Performing, with unwearied hands, The present Saviour's high commands. 6 Yet, with these prospects full in sight, We'll wait Thy signal for the flight; For, while Thy service we pursue, We find a heaven in all we do.

The leaves around me falling

Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint In Prospect of Heaven Lyrics: 1 The leaves around me falling Are preaching of decay; The hollow winds are calling, "Come, pilgrim, come away!" The day in night declining Says I, too, must decline; The year its bloom resigning-- Its lot foreshadows mine! 2 The light my path surrounding, The loves to which I cling, The hopes within me bounding, The joys that round me wing-- All, all, like stars at even, Just gleam and shoot away, Pass on before to heaven, And chide at my delay. 3 The friends gone there before me, Are calling from on big, And happy angels o'er me Tempt sweetly to the sky; "Why wait," they say, "and wither, 'Mid scenes of death and sin? Oh rise to glory hither, And find true life begin!" 4 I hear the invitation, And fain would rise and come, A sinner to salvation, An exile to his home; And while I here must linger, Thus, thus, let all I see Point on with faithful finger To heaven, O Lord, and Thee!

When gloomy thoughts and fears

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint Blessedness of the Righteous Lyrics: 1 When gloomy thoughts and fears The trembling heart invade, And all the face of nature wears A universal shade,-- 2 Religion can assuage The tempest of the soul; And every fear shall lose its rage At her divine control. 3 Through life's bewildered way, Her hand unerring leads; And o'er the path her heavenly ray A cheering lustre sheds. 4 When reason, tired and blind, Sinks helpless and afraid, Thou blest supporter of the mind, How powerful is thine aid. 5 Oh let me feel thy power, And find thy sweet relief, To brighten every gloomy hour, And soften every grief.

Oh happy soul that lives on high

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint Blessedness of the Righteous Lyrics: 1 Oh happy soul that lives on high While men lie groveling here, His hopes are fixed above the sky, And faith forbids his fear. 2 His conscience knows no secret stings, While grace and joy combine To form a life, whose holy springs Are hidden and divine. 3 He waits in secret on his God; His God in secret sees. Let earth be all in arms abroad, He dwells in heavenly peace. 4 His pleasures rise from things unseen, Beyond this world and time, Where neither eyes nor ears have been, Nor thoughts of mortals climb. 5 He looks to heaven's eternal hill, To meet that glorious day When Christ His promise shall fulfil And call his soul away.

What cheering words are these?

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 146 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint Blessedness of the Righteous Lyrics: 1 What cheering words are these? Their sweetness who can tell? In time, and to eternity, ’Tis with the righteous well." 2 In every state secure, Kept by Jehovah’s eye, ’Tis well with them while life endures, And well when called to die: 3 Well, when they see His face, Or sink amid the flood; Well, in affliction's thorny maze, Or on the mount with God. 4 ’Tis well, when joys arise; ’Tis well, when sorrows flow, ’Tis well when darkness veils the skies, And strong temptations grow; 5 'Tis well, when Jesus calls, "From earth and sin arise, To join the hosts of ransomed souls, Made to salvation wise!"

Blest is the man, for ever blest

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 103 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint Justified Lyrics: 1 Blest is the man, for ever blest, Whose guilt is pardoned by his God, Whose sins with sorrow are confessed, And covered with his Saviour's blood. 2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord Imputes not his iniquities; He pleads no merit of reward And not on works, but grace, relies. 3 From guile his heart and lips are free; His humble joy, his holy fear, With deep repentance well agree, And join to prove his faith sincere. 4 How glorious is that righteousness That hides and cancels all his sins! While bright the evidence of grace Through his whole life appears and shines.

Happy the man whose wishes climb

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Man a Saint Blessedness of the Righteous Lyrics: 1 Happy the man whose wishes climb To mansions in the skies! He looks on all the joys of time With undesiring eyes. 2 In vain soft pleasure spreads her charms, And throws her silken chain; And wealth and fame invite His arms, And tempt His ear in vain. 3 He knows that all these glitt'ring things Must yield to sure decay; And sees on time's extended wings How swift they flee away! 4 To things unseen by mortal eyes, A beam of sacred light Directs His view; His prospects rise All permanent and bright. 5 His hopes are fixed on joys to come: Those blissful scenes on high Shall flourish in immortal bloom, When time and nature die.