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"Go over this Jordan"

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 1,402 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: There is a land of pure delight Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 2 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 3 Oh, could we make our doubts remove, These gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes: Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. Used With Tune: VARINA

There is an hour of peaceful rest

Author: William B. Tappan Appears in 566 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven Used With Tune: WOODLAND

Not our Rest

Author: Horatius Bonar Appears in 159 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: This is not my place of resting Lyrics: 1 This is not my place of resting, Mine's a city yet to come; Onward to it I am hasting On to my eternal home. 2 In it all is light and glory; O'er it shines a nightless day: Every trace of sin's sad story, All the curse, hath passed away. 3 There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us By the streams of life along, On the freshest pastures feeds us, Turns our sighing into song. 4 Soon we pass this desert dreary, Soon we bid farewell to pain; Never more are sad or weary, Never, never sin again! Used With Tune: VESPER

"A City"

Author: John M. Neale Appears in 72 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: Jerusalem, the glorious! Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, the glorious! The glory of the elect, O dear and future vision That eager hearts expect! Ev'n now by faith I see thee, Ev'n here thy walls discern; To thee my thoughts are kindled, And strive, and pant, and yearn! 2 The Cross is all thy splendor, The Crucified, thy praise; His land and benediction Thy ransomed people raise; Jerusalem! exulting On that secured shore, I hope thee, wish thee, sing thee, And love thee evermore! 3 O sweet and blessed Country! Shall I e'er see thy face? O sweet and blessed Country! Shall I e'er win thy grace? Exult, O dust and ashes! The Lord shall be thy part; His only, his for ever, Thou shalt be, and thou art! Used With Tune: MIRIAM

The better portion

Author: Robert Seagrave Appears in 807 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings Lyrics: 1 Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things Toward heaven, thy native place: Sun and moon and stars decay; Time shall soon this earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away To seats prepared above. 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; Fire ascending seeks the sun; Both speed them to their source: So a soul that's born of God, Pants to view his glorious face; Upward tends to his abode, To rest in his embrace. 3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn, Press onward to the prize; Soon our Saviour will return Triumphant in the skies: Yet a season, and you know Happy entrance will be given, All our sorrows left below, And earth exchanged for heaven. Used With Tune: AMSTERDAM

"Beautiful Zion"

Author: G. Gill Appears in 263 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: Beautiful Zion, built above Refrain First Line: Zion, Zion, lovely Zion Lyrics: 1 Beautiful Zion, built above, Beautiful city that I love; Beautiful gates of pearly white, Beautiful temple God is light, He who was slain on Calvary, Opens those pearly gates to me. Refrain: Zion, Zion, lovely Zion, Beautiful Zion, city of our God. Zion, Zion, lovely Zion, Beautiful Zion, city of our God. 2 Beautiful crowns on every brow, Beautiful palms the conquerors show; Beautiful robes the ransomed wear, Beautiful all who enter there Thither I press with eager feet; There shall my rest be long and sweet. [Refrain] 3 Beautiful throne for Christ our King, Beautiful songs the angels sing; Beautiful rest all wanderings cease; Beautiful home of perfect peace There shall my eyes the Saviour see Haste to his heavenly home with me. [Refrain] Used With Tune: CORRIDOR HEIGHTS

The New Jerusalem

Author: FBP Appears in 841 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: Jerusalem! my happy home! Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem! my happy home! Name ever dear to me! When shall my labors have an end, In joy, and peace, in thee! 2 Oh, when, thou city of my God, Shall I thy courts ascend, Where congregations ne'er break up, And Sabbaths have no end? 3 There happier bowers than Eden's bloom, Nor sin nor sorrow know: Blest seats! thro' rude and stormy scenes I onward press to you. 4 Why should I shrink at pain and woe! Or feel, at death, dismay? I've Canaan's goodly land in view, And realms of endless day. 5 Apostles, martyrs, prophets there, Around my Saviour stand; And soon my friends in Christ below, Will join the glorious band. 6 Jerusalem! my happy home! My soul still pants for thee; Then shall my labors have an end, When I thy joys shall see. Used With Tune: JERUSALEM

"Immanuel's Land"

Author: Mrs. Anne R. Cousin Appears in 313 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: The sands of time are sinking Lyrics: 1 The sands of time are sinking; The dawn of heaven breaks; The summer morning I've sighed for, The fair, sweet morn, awakes. Dark, dark hath been the midnight; But dayspring is at hand, And glory glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land. 2 Oh, Christ! he is the fountain, The deep, sweet well of love; The streams on earth I've tasted, More deep I'll drink above; There to an ocean fullness His mercy doth expand, And glory glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land. 3 With mercy and with judgment My web of time he wove, And aye the dews of sorrow Were lustred by his love; I'll bless the hand that guided, I'll bless the heart that planned, When throned where glory dwelleth, In Immanuel's land. Used With Tune: RUTHERFORD

The New Jerusalem

Author: John M. Neale Appears in 911 hymnals Topics: The Rest of Heaven First Line: Jerusalem, the golden Lyrics: 1 Jerusalem, the golden, With milk and honey blest! Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed; I know not, oh, I know not, What social joys are there, What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare. 2 They stand, those halls of Zion, All jubilant with song, And bright with many an angel, And all the martyr throng; The Prince is ever in them, The daylight is serene; The pastures of the blessed Are decked in glorious sheen. 3 There is the throne of David; And there, from care released, The song of them that triumph, The shout of them that feast: And they who, with their Leader, Have conquered in the fight For ever and for ever Are clad in robes of white. Used With Tune: EWING