← Heavenly Home Millennial Harp (1843) · p. 14

Heavenly Home

Brethren, while we sojourn here

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Brethren, while we sojourn here,Fight we must, but should not fear;Foes we have, but we've a Friend,One that loves us to the end:Forward, then, with courage go,Long we shall not dwell below;Soon the joyful news will come,"Child, your Father calls, Come home."

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In the way, a thousand snaresLie to take us unawares;Satan, with malicious art,Watches each unguarded heart:But from Satan's malice free,Saints shall soon in glory be;Soon the joyful news will come,"Child, your Father calls, Come home."

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But of all the foes we meet,None so oft misled our feet,None betray us into sin,Like the foes that dwell within:Yet let nothing spoil your peace,Christ shall also conquer these;Then the joyful news will come,"Child, your father calls, Come home."