The Home Of The Soul

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O where can the soul find relief from its foes?

Author: Deodotus Dutton
Published in 20 hymnals

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1 Oh, where can the soul find relief from its foes,
A shelter of safety a home of repose?
Can earth's highest summit or deepest hid vale,
Give a refuge, nor sorrow, nor sin can assail?
No, no, there is a home;
No home on this earth, here the soul has no home.

2 Shall it leave the low earth, shall it soar to the sky,
And seek for a home in the mansions of high?
In the bright realms of bliss, will a dwelling be giv'n,
And the soul find a home in the glory of heav'n?
Yes, yes, there is a home;
There's a home in high heav'n; there the soul has a home.

3 Oh, holy and sweet its rest shall be there!
Free from all sin and from sorrow and care;
And the loud hallelujahs of angels shall rise,
To welcome the soul to its home in the skies.
Home, home, home of the soul;
The bosom of God is the home of the soul.

Source: The Morning Star: a collection of new sacred songs, for the Sunday school, prayer meeting, and the social circle #59

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Author: Deodotus Dutton

Dutton, Deodatus, jun., b. cir. 1810, was a native of Monson, Massachusetts, U.S. He was a Licentiate of the third Presbytery, New York, but died before ordination, about 1832. His hymns in common use are:— 1. On Thibet's snow-capt mountain. Missions. This appeared in pt. ii. of the Christian Lyrics, 1831, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines. It is an imitation of Bp. Heber's “From Greenland's icy mountains." 2. O where can the soul find relief from its foes. Heaven. The date and first published of this hymn is uncertain. It is given, together with the above, in the Plymouth Collection, 1855. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)… Go to person page >

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