The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#846

846. This is not my place of resting

1 This is not my place of resting;
Mine's a city yet to come;
Onward, to it, I am hastening,
On to my eternal home.
In it, all is light and glory;
O'er it shines a nightless day;
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse has passed away.

2 There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us
By the streams of life along;
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.
Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Nevermore are sad and weary,
Never, never sin again.

Text Information

• First Line: This is not my place of resting
• Author: Horatius Bonar
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Waiting for Christ: Closing Work

Tune Information

• Name: GREENVILLE
• Composer: Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Meter: 8s & 7s, D
• Key: F Major or modal
• Notes: Alternate tunes: #1367, 850, or 501.