Our heaven is everywhere

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Our heaven is everywhere

Author: Julia A. Carney
Published in 32 hymnals

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1 Our heaven is everywhere,
If we but love the Lord,
Unswerving tread the narrow way,
And ever shun the broad.

2 'Tis where the trusting heart
Bows meekly to its grief,
Still looking up with earnest faith
For comfort and relief.

3 Wherever truth abides,
Sweet peace is ever there:
If we but love and serve the Lord,
Our heaven is everywhere.

Source: The Christian hymnary: a selection of hymns & tunes for Christian worship #888

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Author: Julia A. Carney

Carney, Julia Abigail (Fletcher). (Lancaster, Massachusetts, April 6, 1823--November 1, 1908, Galesburg, Illinois). Universalist. Married Rev. T.J. Carney, a Universalist minister. Author of many prose articles and poems, generally published in Universalist periodicals. In later life she lived in Galesburg, Illinois. Three of her hymns were included in Church Harmonies, New and Old, 1895: 1. Father, we pray for those who dwell 2. Our heaven is everywhere 3. Think gently of the erring --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Our heaven is everywhere
Author:	Julia A. Carney
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Our heaven is everywhere. [Heaven within Oneself.] Published in the same collection, and with the same signature (Miss Fletcher) as "Think gently of the erring one," p. 1164, ii.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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