Scripture Verse

In My Father’s house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2

Introduction

Words: El­len Mc­A­fee, in New Songs of Praise, by Al­fred E. Hel­ton et al. (Le­noir, North Ca­ro­li­na: Teach­ers’ Mu­sic Pub­lish­ing, 1913), num­ber 94.

Music: Charles A. Brock (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mc­A­fee or Brock (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

A loving wife, a mother dear,
A sis­ter kind and sweet,
A pre­cious daugh­ter, oh! so fair!
Now rests at Je­sus’ feet!
She left us here to mourn alone
In this sad world of pain,
And gained a home of per­fect peace
Where she will ev­er reign.

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She dwells up there in man­sions so fair
That Je­sus said He’d go and pre­pare,
And some bright morn, when earth-life is o’er,
We’ll meet her where we’ll part ne­ver­more.

Our hearts beat hea­vi­ly with grief,
Our tears un­bid­den flow
To part with one we loved so well,
But she is safe, we know,
For God who do­eth all things well,
Who know­eth what is best,
Hath called, Come home, thou faith­ful one,
And share eter­nal rest.

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And when death’s so­lemn hour drew near,
With hope naught could dis­pel,
She called her hus­band to her side,
And told him all was well;
She bade him live a Chris­tian life,
And raise her child­ren right,
And meet her in that hap­py land,
Where sin can ne­ver blight.

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Her me­mo­ry fresh will ev­er be
To all who knew her here,
For she was kind to ev­ery one,
Bright, smil­ing, full of cheer;
Her life was such a Christ­like one,
While here on earth she stayed,
And now she dwells in that bright home,
In snow-white robes ar­rayed.

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