AN ADVENT HYMN | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · May 9, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Supplement to Vol. 51, No. 19

AN ADVENT HYMN.

We are voyagers on an ocean, and our destiny we know, For our chart it has pointed out the way; And our leaders they are cheering us, as o'er the waves we go, Saying, Courage, sailors, soon we'll gain the day.

CHORUS.—

Then we'll watch and we'll pray, as our vessel bears away, And we ne'er will be disheartened any more; For the port is getting nearer, and I hear the leaders say, We soon shall reach the harbor and the shore.

Though strong the winds are blowing, and high the billows roll, It will only make us sigh for land the more, And our rest will be the sweeter, when we reach the heavenly goal, And shout our voyage over on the shore.

We have passed the coast of Babylon and Medo-Persian line, We have left the coast of Grecia far behind; We've been sailing down the Roman shore for eighteen hundred years, And our chart declares the port we soon shall find.

Though dark clouds now gather o'er us, and dangers all around, Our noble bark is bearing us away; So cheer up, noble sailors, for soon the trump will sound, And bring us safe to anchor in the bay.

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