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James Langran, 1863

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1 THRO' the night of doubt and sorrow
Onward goes the pilgrim band,

Singing songs of expectation,
Marching to the promised land.
Clear before us through the darkness
Gleams and burns the guiding light;
Brother clasps the hand of brother,
Stepping fearless through the night.

2 One the light of God's own presence
O'er His ransomed people shed,
Chasing far the gloom and terror,
Brightening all the path we tread;
One the object of our journey,

One the faith which never tires,
One the earnest looking forward,

One the hope our God inspires;

3 One the strain that lips of thousands
Lift as from the heart of one;
One the conflict, one the peril,

One the march in God begun;
One the gladness of rejoicing

On the far eternal shore,
Where the one almighty Father
Reigns in love for evermore.

4 Onward, therefore, pilgrim brothers,
Onward with the cross our aid!
Bear its shame and fight its battle,

Till we rest beneath its shade!
Soon shall come the great awaking,
Soon the rending of the tomb;
Then the scattering of the shadows,

And the end of toil and gloom.

Bernhardt S. Ingemann, 1825, tr. Sabine Baring-Gould, 1867, 1875

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Arthur Sullivan, 1867

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Amen so let it be!

Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality.

Here in the body pent,

Absent from Him I roam,

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.

2 My Father's house on high,

Home of my soul, how near,
At times, to faith's foreseeing eye
Thy golden gates appear!
Ah, then my spirit faints

To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above.

3 I hear at morn and even,

At noon and midnight hour,
The choral harmonies of heaven,
Earth's Babel-tongues o'erpower.

Then, then I feel that He,
Remembered or forgot,
The Lord, is never far from me,
Though I perceive Him not.

4 "For ever with the Lord!”
Father, if 'tis Thy will,

The promise of that faithful word,
E'en here to me fulfil.

Be Thou at my right hand,
Then can I never fail;
Uphold Thou me and I shall stand,
Fight and I must prevail.

5 So when my latest breath

Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.

Knowing as I am known,

How shall I love that word, And oft repeat before the throne, "For ever with the Lord!"

James Montgomery, 1835

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