From Glory unto Glory

lyricist: Frances Havergal, 1873
Composer: Berthold Tours, 1872

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

Be this our joy­ous song

As on the King’s own high­way

We brave­ly march along!

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

O word of stir­ring cheer

As dawns the so­lemn bright­ness

Of one more glad new year.

Our own be­lov­èd Mas­ter

Hath many things to say.

Look for­ward to His teach­ing

Unfolding day by day;

To whis­pers of His Spir­it

To in­sight clear and sweet

To bless­èd con­so­la­tion

While rest­ing at His feet.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

Our faith hath seen the King.

We own His match­less beau­ty

Adoringly we sing;

But He hath more to show us!

O thought of un­told bliss!

And on we press re­joic­ing

In bless­èd hope to this:

To mar­vel­ous out­pour­ings

Of trea­sures new and old

To larg­ess of His boun­ty

Paid in the King’s own gold

To glo­ri­ous ex­pan­sion

Of mys­te­ries of grace

To ra­di­ant un­veil­ings

Of bright­ness from His face.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

What great things He hath done

What won­ders He hath shown us

What tri­umphs He hath won!

We mar­vel at the re­cord

Of bless­ings of the year!

But sweet­er still than Christ­mas

Rings out His pro­mise clear—

That great­er things

far great­er

Our long­ing eyes shall see!

We can but wait and won­der

What great­er things shall be!

But glo­ri­ous ful­fill­ments

Rejoicingly we claim

While plead­ing in the pow­er

Of His pre­vail­ing name.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

What migh­ty bless­ings crown

The lives for which our Lord hath laid

His own so free­ly down!

Omnipotence to keep us

Omniscience

too

to guide

Jehovah’s bless­èd pre­sence

Within us to ab­ide!

The full­ness of His bless­ing

Encompasseth our way;

The full­ness of His pro­mise

Crowns ev­ery bright­en­ing day;

The full­ness of His glo­ry

Is beam­ing from ab­ove

While more and more we real­ize

The full­ness of His love.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

Without a shade of care

Because the Lord who loves us

Will ev­ery bur­den bear;

Because we trust Him ful­ly

And know that He will guide

And know that He will keep us

At His be­lov­èd side.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

Though tri­bu­la­tion fall

It can­not touch our trea­sure

When Christ is All in All!

Whatever lies be­fore us

There can be naught to fear

For what are pain and sor­row

When Je­sus Christ is near?

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

O mar­vels of the Word!

With op­en face be­hold­ing

The glo­ry of the Lord

We

ev­en we (O won­der!)

Are changed in­to the same

The im­age of our Sav­ior

To glo­ri­fy His name.

Abiding in His pre­sence

And walk­ing in the light

And seek­ing to do al­ways

What is pleas­ing in His sight;

We look to Him to keep us

All glo­ri­ous with­in

Because the blood of Je­sus

Is cleans­ing from all sin.

The things be­hind for­get­ting

We on­ly gaze be­fore

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry

That shin­eth more and more

Because our Lord hath said it

That such shall be our way

(O splen­dor of the pro­mise!)

Unto the per­fect day.

From glo­ry un­to glo­ry!

Our fel­low tra­vel­ers still

Are ga­ther­ing on the jour­ney!

The bright elec­tric thrill

Of quick

in­stinct­ive un­ion

More fre­quent and more sweet

Shall swift­ly pass from heart to heart

In true and ten­der beat.

And clos­er yet

and clos­er

The gold­en bonds shall be

Enlinking all who love our

Lord in pure sin­cer­ity;

And wid­er yet

and wid­er

Shall circ­ling glo­ry glow

As more and more are taught our

God’s migh­ty love to know.

O ye who seek the Sav­ior

Look up in faith and love;

Come up in­to the sun­shine

So bright and warm ab­ove!

No long­er tread the val­ley

But

cling­ing to His hand

Ascend the shin­ing sum­mits

And view the glo­ri­ous land.

Our harp notes should be sweet­er

Our trum­pet tones more clear

Our an­thems ring so grand­ly

That all the world must hear!

O roy­al be our mu­sic

For who hath cause to sing

Like chor­us­es of saved ones

The child­ren of the King?

O

let our ad­or­ation

For all that He hath done

Peal out be­yond the heav­ens

While voice and life are one;

And let our con­se­cra­tion

Be real

and deep

and true.

O ev­en now our hearts bow

And joy­ful vows re­new!

In full and glad sur­rend­er

We give our­selves to Thee

Thine ut­ter­ly

and on­ly

And ev­er­more to be!

O Son of God

who lov’st us

We will be Thine alone

Our be­ing and pos­sess­ions

Shall hence­forth be Thine own!

Now on­ward

ev­er on­ward

From strength to strength we go

While grace for grace abun­dant

Shall from His full­ness flow

To glo­ry’s full fru­ition

From glo­ry’s fore­taste here

Until His ve­ry pre­sence

Crown hap­pi­est new year.

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