Heaven

Heaven! How beautiful the sound.
Shout it all the world around.
The place where the creator lives
From whence to all his blessings gives.

A place where all the angels sing
And honor to the Lord do bring.
The place where the redeemed shall dwell
And of their victories shall tell.

O'er sin which once did tempt them sore
But hath this power o'er them no more,
Of how old Satan tried in vain
To win them to his fold again;

Of how their God in mighty power
Did lead them on each day and hour,
Of how they used to plead the blood
When Satan came in like a flood;

And like a lion did roar loud
With countenance like a thundercloud,
A place where God shall dry the tears
Of those who laboured through the years

To bring the light unto the lost
To save some soul at any cost,
A place where all shall live for aye
Rejoining in eternal day;

A place where evil cannot dwell,
A place just opposite of hell.
Let us go tell to all creation
That God inviteth every nation.

Oh Father when I sleep tonight
Let me dream of heaven's glory bright.

Vester Cooper
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