Christ in Song ‎#54

54. Keep Tenting Toward the Highlands

1 Are you tenting on the lowlands
Of the fated, flow'ry plain?
Are you nearing life's high mountains,
As the night comes on again?

Chorus:
Keep tenting toward the highlands,
Each evening nearer home,
Keep tenting toward the highlands,
Keep tenting nearer home.

2 Does fair Sodom in her glory
Beckon you with ease or gain?
Heed her awful judgment story;
Linger not, her joys are vain. [Chorus]

3 To the mountains of salvation!
Hear the angel, Mercy, call;
Do not tarry! look not backward!
Hasten on ere vengeance fall. [Chorus]

Text Information

• First Line: Are you tenting on the lowlands
• Title: Keep Tenting Toward the Highlands
• Author: F. E. B.
• Refrain First Line: Keep tenting toward the highlands
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1908
• Topic: Invitation and Repentance; Living His Life: Nearer to God; The Home Eternal: Nearing Home; Special Selections: Duets
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: [Are you tenting on the lowlands]
• Composer: F. E. Belden
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Public Domain.