But my journey's end is near--Soon I shall rest. Dark and dreary is the
1. We're trav'ling home to heav'n above, Will you go? Will you go? To sing the Saviour's dying love, Will you go? Will you go?
And millions more are on the road, Will you go? Will you go?
Millions have reach'd that blest abode, Anointed kings and priests to God,
15 The way to heaven is free for all,
2 We're going to see the bleeding Lamb, For Jew and Gentile, great and small,
In rapturous strains to praise his name;
The crown of life we there shall wear,
The conqueror's palmas our hands shall
bear,
And all the joys of heaven we'll share.
Will you go? &c.
3 We're going to join the heavenly choir,
To raise our voice, and tune the lyre;
There saints and angels gladly sing
Hosanna to their God and King,
And make the heavenly arches ring.
Will you go? &c.
4 Ye weary, heavy laden, come,
In the blest house there still is room;
The Lord is waiting to receive,
If thou wilt on him now believe,
He'll give thy troubled conscience ease.
Will you go? &c.
Make up your mind, give God your heart,
With every sin and idol part,
And now for glory make a start.
Will you go? &c.
6 The way to heaven is straight and
plain-
Repent, believe, be born again;
The Saviour cries aloud to thee,
"Take up thy cross and follow me,
And thou shalt my salvation see.
Will you go? &c.
7 O, could I hear some sinner say,
I will go! I will go!
I'll start this moment, clear the way,
Let me go! Let me go!
My old companions, fare you well,
I will not go with yon to hell,
I mean with Jesus Christ to dwell,
Let us go! Let us go!
griefs and fears, And look beyond this vale of tears, To that celestial hill.
2 Beyond the bounds of time and 4 Thrice blessed, bliss inspiring hope,
space,
Look forward to that heavenly place,
The saint's secure abode;
On faith's strong eagle pinions rise,
And force your passage to the skies,
And scale the mount of God.
8 Who suffer with our Master here,
We shall before his face appear,
And by his side sit down;
To patient faith the prize is sure.
And all who to the end endure
The cross, shall wear the crown.
It lifts the fainting spirit up;
It brings to life the dead.
Our conflicts here shall soon be past,
And you and I ascend at last,
Triumphant, with our Head."
Jesus, we now sustain the cross,
5 In hope of that ecstatic pause,
And at thy footstool fall;
Till thou our hidden life reveal-
Till thou our ravished spirits fill-
And God be all in all.-
A Returning Jubilee. 14 But as my soul with dying breath, What sound is this salutes my ear? Lay gasping near the second death,' "Tis Gabriel's trump methinks I hear. Christ Jesus I did see;
Th' expected day is come;
Free grace and pardon he proclaim'd,
Behold the heav'n, the earth, the sea, I trust I then was born again,
Proclaim the year of Jubilee,
Return ye exiles home:
2 Behold the fair Jerusalem,
Illuminated by the Lamb,
In glory doth appear;
Fair Zion's rising from the tomb,
To meet the bridegroom, now he's
Which hails the Jubile year.
3 My soul is striving to be there,
I long to rise and wing the air,
And trace the sacred road;
Adieu! adieu! all mortal things,
O! that I had an angel's wings,
I'd quickly see my God.
4 Fly, gracious moments, fly, O fly!
I thirst, I pant, I long, I try,
Angelic joys to prove;
Soon I shall quit this house of clay,
Clap my glad wings and soar away,
And shout redeeming love.
5 Now with the saints I'll join to tell
How Jesus saved my soul from hell,
To sing redeeming love;
Ascribe the glory to the Lamb,
The sinner now is born again,
To dwell with Christ above.
1 Lo, on a narrow neck of land, Twixt two unbounded seas 1 stand, Yet how insensible;
A point of time, a moment's space,
Removes me to that heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in hell.
2 O God, my inmost soul convert,
Eternal things impress;
And deeply on my thoughtful heart,
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And make me, ere it be too late,
Awake to righteousness.
3 Before me place, in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day,
When thou with clouds shalt come,
To judge the nations at thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there
To meet a joyful doom?
4 Be this my one great business here,
With serious industry and fear,
To make my calling sure;
And suffer all thy righteous will,
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And to the end endure.
3 1 heard some tell how Christ did 5 Then Father then our souls receive
His life to let the sinner live,
But him I could not see;
I read my bible, it was plain,,
The sinner must be born again,
Or die eternally.
Transported from this vale to live
And reign with thee above,
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full supreme delight,
And everlasting love.
ancient time to Jordan came, All righteousness to fill; 'Twas
there the ancient Baptist stood, Whose name was John, a
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