There's a joyful word that I know is true

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There's a joyful word that I know is true

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [There's a joyful word that I know is true]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 There’s a joyful word that I know is true,
All too sweet for tongue or pen;
Some glad, happy day, not so far away,
He is coming back again.

Refrain:
He is coming back again,
He is coming back again,
I shall see my King, loud His praises sing,
He is coming back again.

2 Though He lives above in the glory-land,
Far beyond all mortal ken,
Like a chime of bells in His Book it tells,
He is coming back again. [Refrain]

3 I shall see His face, oh, the blessed thought,
Tho’ I know not where, nor when;
Kneel in rapture sweet at His holy feet,
He is coming back again. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Help: for the Sunday school, evangelistic and church services #110

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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