Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
Matthew 6:20
Words & Music: Edward C. Deas, 1921 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Deas (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels), would you ?
I’ve a banking house up in glory,
And I’m banking every day;
My securities are in vaults on high
Which never can decay.
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I have a great big interest in the glory land,
Over on the other shore;
I’ve a mansion there that is great and grand,
Where I’ll live forevermore;
And then my mother waiting over there for me,
Holds another heav’nly share;
So that I can live eternally
On the treasures I have there.
I’m investing over in Beulah,
And my stocks surpass pure gold;
I am rated there with the saints of God,
Whose riches are untold.
Refrain
I’m a joint heir now, with my Savior,
To the kingdom up on high;
Soon I’ll go to join in a partnership,
Where pleasures never die.
Refrain