1 ’Mid all the temptations I daily may meet,
While here, a poor pilgrim, I roam,
I’ve this to console me, and oh, it is sweet—
The thought of the kingdom to come!
Refrain:
The kingdom to come, the kingdom to come,
Where I my dear Savior shall see!
The kingdom to come, the kingdom to come,
Oh, that is the kingdom for me!
2 How many have gone to that region so fair;
But still, I am told, there is room!
And, if I am faithful, my lot shall be there—
Shall be in that kingdom to come. [Refrain]
3 Oh, do not detain me with aught that is vain,
But let me press on to my home!
My spirit is longing a place to obtain,
Inside of the kingdom to come! [Refrain]
4 Oh, come and go with me to yonder abode,
Where flowers eternally bloom!
The home of the angels and children of God—
The glorious kingdom to come! [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13760
Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >
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