MHB 714 – HE wants not friends that hath Thy love

Methodist-Hymns-714

1: HE wants not friends that hath Thy love,
And may converse and walk with Thee,
And with Thy saints here and above,
with whom for ever I must be.

2: The communion of the saints
Is wisdom, safety, and delight;
And when my heart declines and faints,
It’s raised by their heat and light!

3: As for my friends, they are not lost;
The several vessels of Thy fleet,
Though parted now, by tempests tost,
shall safely in the haven meet.

4: Still we are centred all in Thee,
Members, though distant, of one Head; in the same family we be,
By the same faith and spirit led.

5: Before Thy throne we daily meet,
As joint petitioners to Thee;
In spirit we each other greet,
And shall again each other see.

6: The heavenly hosts, world without end,
Shall be my company above;
And Thou, my best and surest Friend,
Who shall divide me from Thy love?