Reward of Saints

In the Christian's home in glory

No. 1002
Metre 8s & 7s. P.
Tune REST FOR THE WEARY.
Words S. J. Harmer.
Music Unknown.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 2/2
5 stanzas

Words

In the Christian's home in glory,There remains a land of rest;And my Saviour's gone before meTo fulfill my soul's request.

Refrain

There is rest for the weary,There is rest for the weary,There is rest for the weary,There is rest for you;On the other side of Jordan,In the sweet fields of Eden,Where the tree of life is blooming,There is rest for you.

He is fitting up my mansionWhich eternally shall stand,For my stay shall not be transientIn that holy, happy land.

Pain or sickness ne'er shall enter,Grief nor woe my lot shall share;But in that celestial center,I a crown of life shall wear.

Death itself shall then be vanquished,And its sting shall be withdrawn;Shout for gladness, O ye ransomed!Hail with joy the rising morn.

Sing, O sing, ye heirs of glory,Shout your triumph as you go;Zion's gates will open for you,You shall find an entrance through.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «REWARD OF SAINTS.»; hymn number «1002» (large, left), tune name «REST FOR THE WEARY. 8s & 7s. P.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals, the «P.» smaller), «UNKNOWN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one text line per system, with «1.» before «In»: «In the Christian's home in glo - ry, There remains a land of rest; And my Saviour's gone be-» / «fore me To ful-fill my soul's request.»; then, in the middle of system 2, «Refrain.» (bold roman) above the treble staff, and the refrain, printed once and without a stanza number: «There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary,» / «There is rest for the wea-ry, There is rest for you; On the oth - er side of Jordan,» / «In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the tree of life is blooming, There is rest for you.» The refrain is sung after every stanza. «ful-fill» is printed with a syllable hyphen under two notes and is written «fulfill» here. Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text below the music, without a reference line: stanzas 2–3 in the left column, 4–5 in the right column, lines 2 and 4 of each stanza indented; stanza 1 is laid out the same way here. «S. J. Harmer.» in italics after stanza 5. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 He»); they are numbered «2.»–«5.» here like stanza 1. The printer's thin space before «;» and «!» («rest ;», «you ;», «share ;», «withdrawn ;», «ransomed !») is closed up here; apostrophes are written straight («Christian's», «Saviour's», «soul's», «ne'er», «Zion's»). Spelling («Saviour», «center»), punctuation and capitals are the print's. A hand-drawn wavy line under «There» in the last system is a pen mark of the scanned copy, not print (uncertainties.md).