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The Unclouded Day

Author: J. K. A. Meter: 9.6.9.6.7.7.5.6 Appears in 209 hymnals Topics: Anticipation First Line: Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies Refrain First Line: Oh, the land of cloudless day Lyrics: 1 Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies, Oh, they tell me of a home far away; Oh, they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise, Oh, they tell me of an unclouded day. Refrain: Oh, the land of cloudless day, Oh, the land of an unclouded day, Oh, they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise, Oh, they tell me of an unclouded day. 2 Oh, they tell me of a home where my friends have gone, Oh, they tell me of that land far away, Where the tree of life in eternal bloom Sheds its fragrance through the unclouded day. [Refrain] 3 Oh, they tell me of a King in His beauty there, And they tell me that mine eyes shall behold Where He sits on the throne that is whiter than snow, In the city that is made of gold. [Refrain] 4 Oh, they tell me that He smiles on His children there, And His smile drives their sorrows all away; And they tell me that no tears ever come again In that lovely land of unclouded day. [Refrain] Scripture: Revelation 22:2 Used With Tune: [Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_Unclouded_Day); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/u/n/uncloudd.htm)

Lord of the Sabbath, Hear Us Pray

Author: Philip Doddridge; Thomas Cotterill Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 181 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 Lord of the Sabbath, hear us pray, in this your house, on this your day; and own, as grateful sacrifice, the songs which from your temple rise. 2 Now met to pray and bless your name, whose mercies flow each day the same, whose kind compassions never cease, we seek instruction, pardon, peace. 3 Your earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, but there's a nobler rest above; to that our lab'ring souls aspire with ardent hope and strong desire. 4 In thy blest kingdom we shall be from ev'ry mortal trouble free; no sighs shall mingle with the songs Resounding from immortal tongues; 5 No rude alarms of raging foes; no cares to break the long repose; no midnight shade, no waning moon, but sacred, high, eternal noon. 6 O long-expected day, begin, dawn on these realms of woe and sin! Break, morn of God, upon our eyes; and let the world's true Sun arise! Scripture: Matthew 12:8 Used With Tune: GERMANY

Come, We That Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,797 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known; join in a song with sweet accord, and thus surround the throne. 2 Let those refuse to sing that never knew our God; but children of the heav'nly King may speak their joys abroad. 3 The men of grace have found glory begun below; celestial fruits on earthly ground from faith and hope may grow. 4 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets, before we reach the heav'nly fields or walk the golden streets. 5 Then let our songs abound, and ev'ry tear be dry; we're marching through Immanuel's ground to fairer worlds on high. Scripture: Psalm 149:2 Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

O Mother dear, Jerusalem

Author: W. Prid; David Dickson, 1583-1663 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 623 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 O Mother dear, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end? Thy joys when shall I see? O happy harbor of the saints! O sweet and pleasant soil! In thee no sorrow may be found, No grief, no care, no toil. 2 Thy walls are made of precious tones, Thy bulwarks diamonds square; Thy gates are of right orient pearl, Exceeding rich and rare. Thy turrets and thy pinnacles With garnets rare do shine; Thy very streets are paved with gold, Surpassing clear and find. 3 Thy gardens and thy gallant walks Continually are green, They grow such sweet and pleasant flow'rs As nowhere else are seen. Quite through the streets, with silver sound, The flood of life doth flow, Upon whose banks on ev'ry side side The wood of life doth grow. 4 Those trees for evermore bear fruit, And evermore do spring; Then evermore the angels sit, And evermore do sing. Jerusalem, my happy home, Would God I were in thee! Would God my woes were at an end, Thy joys that I might see! Amen. Scripture: Revelation 21:10 Used With Tune: MATERNA Text Sources: "F. B. P." in Ms. of 16th or 17th cent.

No Night There

Author: John R. Clements, 1868-1946 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 132 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated First Line: In the land of fadeless day Refrain First Line: God shall wipe away all tears Lyrics: 1 In the land of fadeless day lies the city four-square; it shall never pass away, and there is no night there. Refrain: God shall wipe away all tears; there's no death, no pain, nor fears; and they count not time by years, for there is no night there. 2 All the gates of pearl are made in the city four-square; all the streets with gold are laid, and there is no night there. [Refrain] 3 And the gates shall never close to the city four-square; there life's crystal river flows, and there is no night there. [Refrain] 4 There they need no sunshine bright, in that city four-square; for the Lamb is all the light, and there is no night there. [Refrain] Scripture: Revelation 21:16 Used With Tune: NO NIGHT THERE

Jerusalem the Golden

Author: Bernard of Cluny, 12th cent.; John Mason Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 914 hymnals Topics: Heaven anticipation of Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest, beneath your contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not, O I know not, what joys await us there; what radiancy of glory, what bliss beyond compare. 2 They stand, those halls of Zion, all jubilant with song, and bright with many an angel, and all the martyr throng. The Prince is ever in them, the daylight is serene; the pastures of the blessed are decked in glorious sheen. 3 There is the throne of David; and there, from care released, the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast; and they who with their Leader have conquered in the fight, forever and forever are clad in robes of white. 4 O sweet and blessed country, the home of God's elect! O sweet and blessed country that eager hearts expect! Jesus, in mercy bring us to that dear land of rest; who are, with God the Father and Spirit, ever blest. Scripture: Revelation 21 Used With Tune: EWING

Anticipation

Author: C. W. N. Meter: 8.5.8.5.7.7.7.5 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Anticipation First Line: When the last earth-tie is sundered Lyrics: 1 When the last earth-tie is sundered, And my soul set free; When life’s cares and toils are numbered, I shall haste to be With my Lord, in realms of light, Where no sin can ever blight, Where ne’er comes the shades of night; To His arms I’ll flee. 2 Often here I’m sad and weary, As the days go by; Oft the scenes are dark and dreary, Teardrops dim my eye; But when this short life is o’er, We shall weep and sigh no more, But rejoice forevermore In our home on high. 3 Now I look with eager longing, Where I soon shall stand, Where the happy spirits thronging, In the heav’nly band, Taste the joys of love divine, In refulgent glory shine— This great heritage is mine, In that happy land. 4 Shall I shrink at death’s cold river, When on yonder shore Stands of every good the Giver, Whom I now adore? Untold pleasures beckon me, Untold joys by faith I see, Untold happiness to be Mine forevermore. Scripture: Philippians 3:13-14 Used With Tune: [When the last earth-tie is sundered] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Anticipation); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (457); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (191)

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder

Author: J. M. B. Meter: 15.11.15.11.8.8.8.11 Appears in 445 hymnals Topics: Anticipation First Line: When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more Lyrics: 1 When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair; When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. Refrain: When the roll is called up yonder, When the roll is called up yonder, When the roll is called up yonder, When the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. 2 On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise, And the glory of His resurrection share; When His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. [Refrain] 3 Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun, Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care; Then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. [Refrain] Scripture: Revelation 20:12 Used With Tune: [When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/When_the_Roll_Is_Called_Up_Yonder); Faith Publishing House, Evening Light Songs, 1949, edited 1987 (507)

Abide With Me

Author: Henry F. Lyte Appears in 1,684 hymnals Topics: Heavenly Home Anticipation First Line: Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide Used With Tune: EVENTIDE

The God of Abraham praise

Author: Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799 Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 454 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Used With Tune: LEONI Text Sources: Yigdal (based on)

Rapturous anticipation

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 12.9 Appears in 101 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated First Line: Come, let us ascend Scripture: Revelation 5:6

"Till He Come"!

Author: Edward H. Bickersteth Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 254 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated First Line: "Till he come"! O let the words Lyrics: 1 "Till he come!" O let the words linger on the trembling chords; let the little while between in their golden light be seen; let us think how heav'n and home lie beyond that "Till he come." 2 When the weary ones we love enter on their rest above, seems the earth so poor and vast, all our life-joy overcast? Hush, be ev'ry murmur dumb: it is only till he come. 3 Clouds and conflicts round us press: would we have one sorrow less? All the sharpness of the cross, all that tells the world is loss, death and darkness, and the tomb, Only whisper "Till he come." 4 See, the feast of love is spread, drink the wine, and break the bread: sweet memorials, till the Lord call us round his heav'nly board; some from earth, from glory some, severed only till he come. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Used With Tune: REDHEAD 76

When I can read my title clear

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 1,231 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. 2 Should earth against my soul engage And fiery darts be hurled, Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, and storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all. 4 There I shall bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest; And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast. Amen. Used With Tune: BROWN

There is a land of pure delight

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,405 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flow'rs; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes; 6 we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. Amen. Scripture: Deuteronomy 4:22 Used With Tune: MEDITATION

The sands of time are sinking

Author: Anne R. Cousin; Samuel Rutherford, 1600-1661 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.5 Appears in 317 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 The sands of time are sinking, The dawn of heaven breaks, The summer morn I've sighed for, The fair sweet morn awakes; Dark, dark hath been the midnight, But day-spring is at hand, And glory, glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's land. 2 The King there in his beauty Without a veil is seen; It were a well-spent journey Though sev'n deaths lay between: The Lamb with his fair army Doth on Mount Zion stand, And glory, glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's land. 3 O Christ, he is the fountain, The deep sweet well of love! The streams on earth I've tasted More deep I'll drink above: There to an ocean fulness His mercy doth expand, And glory, glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's land. 4 The bride eyes not her garment, But her dear bridegroom's face; I will not gaze at glory, But on my King of grace; Not at the crown he gifteth, But on his pierced hand: The Lamb is all the glory Of Emmanuel's land. Amen. Scripture: Revelation 22:4 Used With Tune: RUTHERFORD

My Jesus, I Love Thee

Author: William R. Featherstone Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 1,096 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated First Line: My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine Lyrics: 1 My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine; for thee all the follies of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art thou; If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. 2 I love thee because thou hast first loved me, and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree. I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow; if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. 3 I'll love thee in life, I will love thee in death; and praise thee as long as thou lendest me breath; and say, when the death-dew lies cold on my brow: if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. 4 In mansions of glory and endless delight, I'll ever adore thee in heaven so bright; I'll sing with the glittering crown on my brow: if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. Scripture: 1 John 4:19 Used With Tune: CARITAS

Children of the heavenly King

Author: John Cennick, 1718-1755 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,184 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Used With Tune: INNOCENTS

Savior, Blessed Savior

Author: Godfrey Thring Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 329 hymnals Topics: Heaven Anticipated Lyrics: 1 Savior, blessed Savior, listen while we sing; hearts and voices raising praises to our King: all we have we offer, all we hope to be, body, soul, and spirit, all we yield to thee. 2 Nearer, ever nearer, Christ we draw to thee, deep in adoration, bending low the knee; thou for our redemption cam'st on earth to die; thou, that we might follow, hast gone up on high. 3 Great and ever greater, are thy mercies here; true and everlasting are the glories there, where no pain nor sorrow, fear nor care, is known, where the angel legions circle round thy throne. 4 Higher then, and higher, bear the ransomed soul, earthly toils forgotten - Savior, to its goal; where, in joys unthought of, saints with angels sing, never weary, raising praises to their King. Scripture: Romans 13:11 Used With Tune: HERMAS

Gently, Lord

Author: Thomas Hastings (1781-1872) Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: Death Anticipated First Line: Gently, Lord, O gently lead us Scripture: Exodus 13:21-22 Used With Tune: AUTUMN

There is a house not made with hands

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 210 hymnals Topics: Death Anticipated Lyrics: 1 There is a house not made with hands, Eternal and on high; And here my spirit waiting stands, And here my spirit waiting stands, Till God shall bid it fly. 2 Shortly this prison of my clay Must be dissolved and fall, Then, O my soul! with joy obey Then, O my soul! with joy obey Thy Heavenly Father's call. 3 'Tis He, by His almighty grace, That forms thee fit for heaven, And as an earnest of the place, And as an earnest of the place, Has His own Spirit given. 4 We walk by faith of joys to come, Faith lives upon His word; But while the body is our home, But while the body is our home, We're absent from the Lord. Amen. Used With Tune: TAPPAN

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