There's a Happy Time A-coming

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There's a happy time a-coming, there's a happy time a-coming

Author: Charles Price Jones
Tune: [There's a happy time a-coming, there's a happy time a-coming] (Jones)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 There's a happy time a-coming, there's a happy time a-coming,
When oppressors shall no longer sit on high.
When the proud shall be as stubble, for their sins receiving double;
There's a happy time a-coming by and by.

Refrain:
Let us wait and labor on,
Soon the vict'ry will be won,
Soon our suff'ring will be done,
There's a happy time a-coming by and by.

2 Lo, the Lord will come from heaven on the clouds with thunder riven,
And the angel host will follow in His train;
He'll redeem the world from sadness, and His servants fill with gladness
When in power He shall come to earth again. [Refrain]

3 Let us wait and labor, brother, loving, helping one another,
Walking meekly in the laws of God most high;
Let us bear reproach and sorrow, 'twill be better on tomorrow–
There's a happy day a-coming by and by. [Refrain]

Source: His Fullness Songs #180

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Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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First Line:	There's a happy time a-coming, there's a happy time a-coming
Title:	There's a Happy Time A-coming
Author:	Charles Price Jones
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Let us wait and labor on
Copyright:	Public Domain