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LOOKING FOR JESUS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 31.

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LOOKING FOR JESUS.

By J. O. Beard

J. O. BEARD.
(Tune: Marching through Georgia.)
Bring the good old song-books, children, sing the songs once more, Sing them as we sang them when they rang from shore to shore, Sing them with the spirit that we had in “Forty-four,” When we were looking for Jesus.

CHORUS—

Hurrah! hurrah! we sing the jubilee, Hurrah! hurrah! the Lord has made us free; So we’ll sing the chorus now and through eternity, For we are looking for Jesus.
How we shouted “Hallelujah!” as we sang those lays! How, from overflowing hearts, our lips were filled with praise! How my heart still burns as I recall those blessed days, When we were looking for Jesus!
Now I’m getting old and feeble—well-nigh spent my days; Younger voices now than mine must tell God’s wondrous ways; But my heart with rapture glows, and still I sing his praise, While we are looking for Jesus.
Yes, and there are honest ones who’ll weep with joyful tears When they hear God’s word proclaimed as they’ve not heard for years, When they learn our Lord is coming, as foretold by seers, While we are looking for Jesus.
God has made a thoroughfare to Canaan’s goodly land, He has raised his banner high, and by it we will stand; We will follow, for it leads us to that golden strand, While we are looking for Jesus.