The street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation 21:21
Words: Mattie E. Buttram, in The Eureka Echoes (South McAlester, Indian Territory [now Oklahoma]: Eureka Publishing, 1903).
Music: Fremont Adalaski D. Sartwell, 1903 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Sartwell or Buttram (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
There’s a homeland of joy for the soul,
With its brightness and beauty sublime;
There we’ll live while the ages shall roll,
In that blessèd and pure holy clime.
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Guide me, angels of light, to that home,
Where my loved ones are waiting for me;
In that land where no sorrow can come,
We will live, blessèd Savior, with Thee.
In that beautiful homeland so blest,
There’s no parting, no heartache, no sigh;
With our Savior and king we shall rest,
Free from care in the sweet by and by.
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There’s a homeland of peace over there,
Where the weary find rest to the soul;
There the saints all immortal and fair,
Walk with Christ thro’ the streets of pure gold.
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