He Is Coming Again

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We are looking toward the sky with a hoping, trusting eye

Author: Austin Taylor
Tune: [We are looking toward the sky with a hoping, trusting eye]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 We are looking t'ward the sky with a hoping, trusting eye,
For the coming of the Lamb who once was slain;
As He went from earth away He is coming back some day,
Yes, we know He is coming again.

Chorus:
He is coming, He is coming,
Whether morning, noon or night, we know not when;
He is coming, He is coming,
Yes, we know He is coming again.

2 He is coming by and by, He is coming in the sky,
As He promised in His everlasting word;
O the glory it will be when His presence we shall see,
When He comes to, His faithful, reward. [Chorus]

3 He is coming back we know, with the angels white as snow,
And shall gather all His faithful to Him then;
Let us watch and work and pray, and be ready ev'ry day,
For we know He is coming again. [Chorus]

Source: The Majestic Hymnal, number two #395

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Author: Austin Taylor

Austin Taylor (October 14, 1881 – January 1, 1973) Austin Taylor was born October 14, 1881 in Morgantown, Kentucky. He served Churches of Christ, one of three branches of the Stone-Campbell Movement for all of his long life as a song writer, song leader, minister, preacher, teacher, and singing school leader. The school he helped to found, the Texas Normal Singing School, still holds its camp every Summer. The Taylors moved to Sherman, TX in 1890. There Austin began his music career as a singing school teacher and song writer. Two of his outstanding teachers were Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834-1907) of New York, who wrote songs such as “Master the Tempest is Raging,” “Angry Words,” and “O Lord, Our Lord,” and Dr. Horace Neel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	We are looking toward the sky with a hoping, trusting eye
Title:	He Is Coming Again
Author:	Austin Taylor
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	He is coming, He is coming
Publication Date:	1913
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.