He will…remove the cloud of sorrow.
Isaiah 25:7
Words: Marion Clyde, in The Pilot, by Alfred E. Helton et al. (Lenoir, North Carolina: Teachers’ Music Publishing, 1914), number 46.
Music: John L. Hawkins (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Clyde or Hawkins (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
As we daily journey onward,
Whatsoe’r our lot in life,
Clouds of sin and sorrow
Fill us with dismay;
But if we will trust in Jesus,
He will sanctify our strife,
And receive us when
The clouds have passed away.
Refrain
When the clouds have passed away,
We shall dwell with Christ for aye,
Sharing in eternal brightness
With redeemed ones
Round the throne,
When for evermore
The clouds have passed away.
Jesus knows that only sunshine
Cannot draw us close to Him,
For we are so strangely
Weak and prone to stray;
But we learn by faith to follow,
When with tears the way is dim,
And we’ll see Him when
The clouds have passed away.
Refrain
O the brightness of the morning!
O the bliss beyond compare!
When accepted we
Shall stand in white array,
Knowing that with Christ, our Savior,
We eternal joys shall share,
And forever all
The clouds have passed away.
Refrain