Will You Meet Me Over Yonder?

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I journey to the better land

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [I journey to the better land]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I journey to the better land,
The New Jerusalem,
To welcome from my Savior’s hand,
A royal diadem.

Refrain:
Will you meet me over yonder in the New Jerusalem,
Where the faithful will be robed in spotless white,
And wear with Christ’s redeemed ones the royal diadem
Over yonder in the palaces of light?

2 Oh, meet me on that farther shore,
Amid the saved and blest,
There sin and sorrow come no more,
And all have perfect rest! [Refrain]

3 Direct your feet t’ward heaven’s gate,
Nor leave the narrow way,
Till safe with those who for thee wait
In yonder realms of day. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #19

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I journey to the better land
Title:	Will You Meet Me Over Yonder?
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Will you meet me over yonder in the New Jerusalem
Copyright:	Public Domain