Wonderful City of God

Representative Text

1 There's a wonderful place we call home,
'Tis a city of glory divine,
It is built in the garden of rest,
And that beautiful home shall be mine,
O that wonderful Eden, so blest,
Where Jesus, the Master has gone
To prepare us this glorious home.
There He bids us a welcome to come.

Refrain:
O wonderful city of God,
Just across in that beautiful clime,
Where the angels' sweet echo of song
In musical cadencies chime
O wonderful city of God,
By faith in the distance I see,
There's a mansion prepared over there,
Yes, a place in that city for me.

2 O how sweet it will be there to dwell
With the Saviour and Father of all,
In a palace of diamond and gold,
Where no evil to us can befall;
There no sorrow that home shall invade,
And our loved ones no more there shall die;
One celestial, unbroken, sweet day,
While eternities' ages roll by. [Refrain]

3 When the jewels of Jesus are brought,
There to shine in that land of sweet song,
What a beautiful, beautiful thought
That I shall be there in that throng;
Sweetest peace to my soul it will be,
To behold such a glorious sight,
Where the sun and the moon neither shine,
But the glory of God is the light. [Refrain]

Source: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #198

Author: J. W. Ferrill

Born: October 31, 1879, Texas. Died: May 13, 1975, Park Place Nursing Home, Mart, Texas. Buried: Faulkenberry Cemetery, Groesbeck, Texas. James W. Ferrill was born on Oct. 31, 1879, and raised on a farm at Davis Prairie near Thornton in Limestone County, TX, outside of Grosbeck and about thirty miles east of Waco. His family were members of the church of Christ, and he became a Christian too. At about age fifteen he began his study of music under J. E. Thomas and Franklin L. Eiland. After graduating from North Texas Normal College at Denton, TX, where he received his teacher’s degree, he began conducting singing schools with his first one at Forace Chapel near Grosbeck in 1901. Continuing to teach singing schools regularly fr… Go to person page >

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First Line: There's a wonderful place we call home
Title: Wonderful City of God
Author: J. W. Ferrill
Refrain First Line: O wonderful city of God
Copyright: Public Domain

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