And have done for years that are gone;
How often we’ve met him in sweet heav’nly union
Which opens the way to God’s throne;
With joy and thanksgiving we’ll praise him who loved us,
While we run the bright shining way;
Though we part here in body we’re bound for one glory,
And bound for each other to pray.
There was Joshua and Joseph, Elias and Moses,
That pray’d, and God heard from his throne;
There was Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and David,