CHRISTIAN LIFE >> PILGRIMAGE
SDAH 629
O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread
With Jesus as your fellow,
To Jesus as your Head!
Text
1
O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread
With Jesus as your fellow,
To Jesus as your Head!
2
O happy if ye labor
As Jesus did for men;
O happy if ye hunger
As Jesus hungered then!
3
The trials that beset you,
The sorrows ye endure,
The manifold temptations
That death alone can cure,
4
What are they but His jewels
Of right celestial worth?
What are they but the ladder
Set up to heaven on earth?
5
O happy band of pilgrims,
Look upward to the skies,
Where such a light affliction
Shall win you such a prize!
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Heb 11:13, Matt 11:29 (b) Matt 4:2 (c) 1 Pet 1:6 (d) 1 Pet 1:7, Gen 28:12 (e) 2 Cor 4:17
Author
from Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 800-883)
Translator
John M. Neale, 1862 (1818-1866)
Year Published
c. 840
Hymn Tune
VULPIUS
Metrical Number
7.6.7.6.
Arranged
from Melchor Vulpius (1560-1616)
Hymn Score
Piano Accompaniment
Notes
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