Blessed Christ of Galilee

There's a far off path I should like to find

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Tune: [There's a far off path I should like to find]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 There’s a far off path I should like to find,
Where the Saviour walked of old in Galilee,
In the shifting sand of the golden strand,
By the waters of the ever changing sea.

Chorus:
I should like to walk with Thee,
Blessed Christ of Galilee,
With thy smile of love upon my soul;
I should like to hear Thy voice,
Bid my longing heart rejoice,
While the never ending ages roll.

2 There’s a wayside spring where I long to taste,
Of the fountain where my Saviour drank before,
And a lowly cot in a quiet spot,
Where the Lord of love and labor dwelt of yore. [Chorus]

3 There’s a nearer path where my feet may go,
That is blessed because the poor He loved are there,
And the great delight of the land of light,
Will be brighter for the woes that I may share. [Chorus]

4 Though the hillside fountain of Galilee,
May have sunk away and vanished long ago,
In the fount of life I may quench all strife,
And the golden crown of loving labor know. [Chorus]


Source: Gems and Jewels #42

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)  Go to person page >

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First Line: There's a far off path I should like to find
Title: Blessed Christ of Galilee
Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I should like to walk with thee
Copyright: Public Domain

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