2 O one, O only mansion!
O Paradise of joy!
Where tears are ever banished,
And smiles have no alloy;
The Lamb is all thy splendour,
The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction
Thy ransomed people raise.
3 With jasper glow thy bulwarks,
Thy streets with emeralds blaze;
The sardius and the topaz
Unite in thee their rays:
Thine ageless walls are bonded
With amethyst unpriced:
The saints build up its fabric,
And the corner-stone is Christ.
4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away!
Upon the Rock of Ages
They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,
And thine the golden dower.
5 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country,
That eager hearts expect!
Jesu, in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest:
Who art, with God the Father,
And Spirit, ever blest. Amen.
ONWARD! ONWARD! 8, 7, 8, 7. 12 lines.
C. H. LLOYD.
M. A., Mus. Bac., Oxon.
On-ward! onward! march to glory, Tread each footprint of the Lord, Who hath taught in gospel story How to gain the great re- ward.
ert dreary, Here are realms of star-less night,
Yet, tho' weak our limbs, and weary, We may win the City bright.
Who hath taught in gospel story How to gain the great re-ward. Amen.
2 Tho' for sin our hearts must sorrow, Tho' temptations round us throng, Hymns of Angels let us borrow,
Jesus, Saviour, be our song.
And while loud our anthems ringing.
One harmonious strain upraise,
Let our lives be like our singing,
Let no discord mar our praise.
Onward! onward! etc.
4 First in earliest childhood's morning,
From our sins He set us free,
And, with all His grace adorning,
Chooses us His own to be;
Then, when Satan's hosts would steal
From His fold with envious might,
With His Spirit He doth seal us,
Strengthen, arm us for the fight.
Onward! onward! etc.
3 Let us march to take our station,
With the white-robed choirs on high,
Out of every age and nation
Who to God's high Throne are nigh;
We on earth like worship leading,
Lives like theirs must try to live,
And His merits always pleading,
Unto Christ our being give.
Onward! onward! etc.
5 Onward, then, nor faint, nor falter, Onward to the rest above; Christ His promise will not alter,
But will meet us in His love. Now with voice and understanding,
Psalms and hymns of joy upraise, And with choirs of Angels banding, Father, Son and Spirit praise.
Onward! onward! etc. Amen.
107. BRIGHTLY GLEAMS OUR BANNER. 6s, 5s. D.
1. Brightly gleams our ban -ner, Point-ing to the sky, Waving wand'rers
on - ward To their home on high. Journeying o'er a desert,
Waving wand'rers on-ward To their home on high. A-men.
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