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SDAH 626
Let us sing a song that will cheer us by the way,
In a little while we’re going home.
For the night will end in the everlasting day,
In a little while we’re going home.
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Eliza Hewitt (1851-1920; see Biographies), a Sunday school teacher in Philadelphia, was both a poet and musician. Many of her poems were set to music by the best gospel song composers of her time, but she chose to write the music for this one herself. This is one that the hymnal Committee “brought back” from Gospel in Song, Review and Herald, 1926, where the original reads, “Copyright 1899, Hope Publishing Co., owner.” It undoubtedly was also in other gospel song collections that were being printed in profusion during this era.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
1
Let us sing a song that will cheer us by the way,
In a little while we’re going home.
For the night will end in the everlasting day,
In a little while we’re going home.
Refrain
In a little while, In a little while,
We shall cross the billow’s foam;
We shall meet at last, When the stormy winds are past,
In a little while we’re going home.
2
We will do the work that our hands may find to do,
In a little while we’re going home.
And the grace of God will our daily strength renew,
In a little while we’re going home.
3
We will smooth the path for some weary, wayworn feet,
In a little while we’re going home.
And may loving hearts spread around an influence sweet!
In a little while we’re going home.
4
There’s a rest beyond, there’s relief from every care,
In a little while we’re going home;
And no tears shall fall in that city bright and fair,
In a little while we’re going home.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Rev 21:25 (b) Eccl 9:10 (c) Heb 5:2 (d) Rev 21:4 (r) 1 Pet 5:10
Author
Eliza E. Hewitt (1851-1920)
Metrical Number
12.9.12.9.Ref.
Composer
Eliza E. Hewitt
