2863 How Happy Is the Pilgrim’s Lot
1
How happy is the pilgrim’s lot!
How free from every anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined to neither court nor cell,
His soul disdains on earth to dwell,
He only sojourns here.
2
This happiness in part is mine,
Already saved from self design,
From every creature love;
Blest with the scorn of finite good,
My soul is lightened of its load,
And seeks the things above.
3
The things eternal I pursue,
A happiness beyond the view
Of those that basely pant
For things by nature felt and seen;
Their honors, wealth, and pleasures mean
I neither have nor want.
4
I have no sharer of my heart,
To rob my Savior of a part,
And desecrate the whole;
Only betrothed to Christ am I,
And wait His coming from the sky,
To wed my happy soul.
5
I have no babes to hold me here;
But children more securely dear
For mine I humbly claim,
Better than daughters or than sons,
Temples divine of living stones,
Inscribed with Jesus’ Name.
6
No foot of land do I possess,
No cottage in this wilderness,
A poor wayfaring man,
I lodge awhile in tents below;
Or gladly wander to and fro,
Till I my Canaan gain.
7
Nothing on earth I call my own;
A stranger, to the world unknown,
I all their goods despise;
I trample on their whole delight,
And seek a country out of sight,
A country in the skies.
8
There is my house and portion fair,
My treasure and my heart are there.
And my abiding home;
For me my elder brethren stay,
And angels beckon me away,
And Jesus bids me come.
9
“I come,” Thy servant, Lord, replies,
“I come to meet Thee in the skies,
And claim my heavenly rest”;
Now let the pilgrim’s journey end,
Now, O my Savior, Brother, Friend.
Receive me to Thy breast!

Temukan kidung nyanyian lainnya dari EN (English Hymns)

2864 Rise Up, O Men of God
2865 Dear Lord, on This Thy Servant’s Day
2866 Great and Fair Is She
2867 Lift Up Your Hearts to Things Above
2868 Lord, When I All Things Would Possess
2869 How Happy Are They
2870 Vain Are All Terrestrial Pleasures
2871 Do Not Worry
2872 There’s Not a Bird with Lonely Nest
2873 Flower Carol
2874 The Little Cares Which Fretted Me
2875 Seek Ye First
2876 Take Not Thought for Food or Raiment
2877 Beautiful Sunshine
2878 Just for Today (Partridge)
2879 Step by Step (Ulmer)
2880 Bless This Hour of Prayer
2881 Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare
2882 Have You Prayed It Through?
2883 O Thou That Hearest Prayer
2884 Broad Is the Road
2885 O Brother, Life’s Journey Beginning
2886 I’m Going Through
2887 Lord, Thy Children Guide and Keep
2888 Strait Is the Gate to All That Come