MHB 616 – THROUGH the night of doubt and sorrow,

Methodist-Hymns-616

1:  THROUGH the night of doubt and sorrow,
Onward goes the pilgrim band,
Singing songs of expectation,
Marching to the promised  land.

2:  Clear before us through the darkness
gleams and burns the guiding light;
Brother clasps the hand of brother,
Stepping  fearless through the night.

3:  One the light of God’s own presence
o’er His ransomed people shed,
Chasing far the gloom and terror,
Brightening all the path we tread:

4:  One the object of our journey,
One the faith which never tires,
One the earnest looking forward,
One the hope our God inspires:

5:  On the strain that lips of thousands
Lift as from the heart of one;
One the conflict, one the peril,
One the march in God begun:

6:  One the gladness of rejoicing
On the far eternal shore,
where the one almighty Father
Reigns  in love for evermore.

7:  Onward, therefore, pilgrim brothers,
Onward with the Cross our aid!
Bear its shame, and fight its battle,
Till we rest beneath its shade.

8:  Soon shall come the great awaking,
Soon the rending of the tomb;
Then the scattering of all shadows,
And  the end of toil and gloom.