Adventist Pioneer Library

The Christian — Warfare and Pilgrimage

As through this changing world we roam

  • No. 623
  • Words James Montgomery.
  • 2 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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As through this changing world we roam,From infancy to age,Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home,His rest at every stage;Thither his raptured thoughts ascend,Eternal joys to share;There his adoring spirit bends,While here he kneels in prayer.

2

From earth his freed affections riseTo fix on things above,Where all his hope of glory lies,And love is perfect love;Ah! there may we our treasure place,There let our hearts be found,That still where sin abounded, graceMay more and more abound.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «623» (large) in the right column of p. 204, below «R. F. Cottrell.» of hymn 622, with NO reference line (the space to the right of the number is blank, checked at 4x); the text is in the meter of COURAGE (8s & 6s. D.: 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6), the tune of hymn 622 printed just above. Two stanzas of eight lines, numbered «1», «2» (no period; written «1.», «2.» here as in the other deliveries of this book), lines 2, 4, 6, 8 indented; «James Montgomery.» in italics after stanza 2, at the foot of the right column. The first word «As» is set in ordinary type (no small capitals). The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («stage ;», «share ;», «love ;», «Ah !»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
The Christian — Warfare and Pilgrimage · No. 623 · printed page 204
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02