Scripture Verse

God shall wipe away all tears…and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Revelation 21:4

Introduction

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Lillian B. Beede
1870–1931

Words: Lil­li­an B. Beede, 1904.

Music: My Old Ken­tuc­ky Home Ste­phen C. Fos­ter, prob­ab­ly 1852 (🔊 pdf nwc). Ar­ranged by Pe­ter P. Bil­horn, In­ter­na­tion­al Gos­pel Hymns and Songs (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Bil­horn Bro­thers, 1905), num­ber 134.

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Stephen C. Foster (1826–1864)

Lyrics

There’ll be no night in the New Je­ru­sa­lem,
No darkness to sha­dow the day;
No sun nor moon, for the Lamb of God is light,
And His glo­ry pass­eth not away;
There’ll be no death, nei­ther sor­row, grief nor pain,
The right­eous shall dwell with Him there,
And sing His praises and glo­ri­fy His name,
In the New Je­ru­sa­lem so fair.

A ri­ver flows in that city of the Lamb,
A foun­tain of life for the soul;
And who­so­e’er is athirst may come and drink,
Where those crys­tal wa­ters gent­ly roll;
When Je­sus died on the cross of Cal­va­ry,
Sin’s bur­dens of sor­row to bear,
He con­quered death, and He opened wide the gates
To the New Je­ru­sa­lem so fair.

Some day the hosts of the dead who sleep shall rise,
And ga­ther, when trum­pets shall sound,
For Judg­ment Day when the Book shall be un­sealed,
And the record of the ag­es found;
Then grant, O Lord, the re­cord­ing an­gel finds
Our names have been all writ­ten there;
With Je­sus then we will dwell for­ev­er­more,
In the New Je­ru­sa­lem so fair.