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Yes, let the future smile or mourn, To us a glorious place is given, With the great church of the first-born, Whose names are registered in heaven. Beyond the bounds of time’s expansion, Where change and sorrow cannot come, We’re journeying to the promised mansion, Made ready in our Father’s home. Friends, kindred, loving and beloved, That wont on earth our lot to cheer, Thither are, one by one removed, And we shall find them settled there. Enough! though sin, and pain, and death, This transitory world infest, They who attain to Abraham’s faith, Shall be with faithful Abraham blest.
Yes, let the future smile or mourn, To us a glorious place is given, With the great church of the first-born, Whose names are registered in heaven. Beyond the bounds of time’s expansion, Where change and sorrow cannot come, We’re journeying to the promised mansion, Made ready in our Father’s home. Friends, kindred, loving and beloved, That wont on earth our lot to cheer, Thither are, one by one removed, And we shall find them settled there. Enough! though sin, and pain, and death, This transitory world infest, They who attain to Abraham’s faith, Shall be with faithful Abraham blest.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
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