And be safe for evermore.

A variant of the above text and tune is ‘when we pass over Jordan’, Mason’s Harp of the South, p. 295.

No. 161
[CHRISTIAN PROSPECT] or THERE’S A BETTER DAY, SOH 323

Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)

We have our trials here below,

O glory hallelujah!

We have our trials here below,

O glory hallelujah!

There’s a better day a-coming,