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O happy band of pilgrims

by Joseph the Hymnographer, c. 840 (c. 800-883) · translated by John Mason Neale

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 629.

Verse 1

O happy band of pilgrims, If onward ye will tread With Jesus as your fellow, To Jesus as your Head!

Verse 2

O happy if ye labor As Jesus did for men; O happy if ye hunger As Jesus hungered then!

Verse 3

The trials that beset you, The sorrows ye endure, The manifold temptations That death alone can cure,

Verse 4

What are they but His jewels Of right celestial worth? What are they but the ladder Set up to heaven on earth?

Verse 5

O happy band of pilgrims, Look upward to the skies, Where such a light affliction Shall win you such a prize!

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