The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#699

699. Is not the way to heavenly gain

1 In not the way to heavenly gain
Through earthly grief and loss?
Rest must be won by toil and pain,
The crown repays the cross.

2 In tears and trials thou must sow
To reap in joy and love;
We cannot find our home below,
And hope for one above.

3 As woods, when shaken by the breeze,
Take deeper, firmer root;
As winter's frost but makes the trees
Abound in summer fruit;

4 So every heaven-sent pang and throe
That Christian firmness tries,
But nerves us for our work below,
And forms us for the skies.

Text Information

• First Line: Is not the way to heavenly gain
• Author: Henry F. Lyte
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: The Christian: Comfort and Encouragement
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: NOTTING HILL
• Composer: C. H. Purdy
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: B♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #201, 395, or 183.