When We All Get to Heaven

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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace (Hewitt)

Author: E. E. Hewitt (1898)
Tune: HEAVEN (Wilson)
Published in 294 hymnals

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	When We All Get to Heaven

Piano/Organ
	I'll Be There

Choral
	I WILL SING!

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1 Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace;
In the mansions bright and blessed
He'll prepare for us a place.

Refrain:
When we all get to heaven,
what a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
we'll sing and shout the victory!

2 While we walk the pilgrim pathway
Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when trav'ling days are over
Not a shadow, not a sigh. [Refrain]

3 Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving ev'ry day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay. [Refrain]

4 Onward to the prize before us!
Soon His beauty we'll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open–
We shall tread the streets of gold. [Refrain]

Source: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: an African American ecumenical hymnal #623

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Author: E. E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace (Hewitt)
Title:	When We All Get to Heaven
Author:	E. E. Hewitt (1898)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 with refrain
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When we all get to heaven
Notes:	Spanish translation: See "Alabanzas dad a Cristo" by H. C. Ball
Copyright:	Public Domain