Promoted to Glory

Summoned home

the call has sound­ed

Bidding a sol­dier his war­fare cease;

And the song of an­gels re­sound­ed

Welcomes a war­ri­or to eter­nal peace.

Praise the Lord! from earth­ly strug­gles

A com­rade has found re­lease.

Death has lost its sting

the grave its vic­to­ry;

Conflicts and dan­gers are ov­er;

See him hon­ored in the throne of glo­ry

Crowned by the hand of Je­ho­vah!

Strife and sor­row ov­er

The Lord’s true faith­ful sol­dier

Has been called to go from the ranks be­low

To the con­quer­ing host ab­ove.

Once the sword

but now the scep­ter

Once the fight

now the rest and fame

Broken ev­ery earth­ly fet­ter

Now the glo­ry for the cross and shame;

Once the loss of all for Je­sus

But now the eter­nal gain.

Trials and sor­row here have found their mean­ing

Mysteries their ex­pla­na­tion;

Safe

for­ev­er in the sun­light gleam­ing

Of His eter­nal sal­va­tion.