In My Father’s house are many mansions…I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2
Words & Music: John J. Mathews, in Bright Beautiful Bells, edited by Benjamin B. Beall (Birmingham, Alabama & Buchanan, Georgia: B. B. Beall, 1900), number 34 (🔊 pdf nwc). To my friend and classmate, Prof. B. B. Beall.
If you know where to get a good photo of Mathews (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
There’s a beautiful home
Far beyond the starry sky,
Christ has gone to prepare over there.
I shall dwell in that home
In the sweet by and by;
How I long, how I long to be there!
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Then I’ll sing, sweetly sing,
In the mansions here the blest never die;
Then I’ll sing, sweetly sing,
In that home in the sweet by and by.
There I’ll sing with the angels
Of Moses and the Lamb;
While the ages eternally fly;
For the Lord will be there
With the saved from every land,
In that home in the sweet by and by.
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I will dwell in that home
With the loved ones gone before,
And with them all its blessedness share;
And forever the Savior
Of sinners adore,
And be happy and blest over there.
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