1 On our way rejoicing,
As we homeward move,
Hearken to our praises,
O Thou God of love!
Is there grief or sadness?
Thine it cannot be!
Is our sky beclouded?
Clouds are not from Thee!
On our way rejoicing,
As we homeward move,
Hearken to our praises,
O Thou God of love!
2 If with honest-hearted
Love for God and man,
Day by day Thou find us
Doing what we can,
Thou Who giv'st the seed-time
Wilt give large increase,
Crown the head with blessings,
Fill the heart with peace.
On our way rejoicing,
As we homeward move,
Hearken to our praises,
O Thou God of love!
3 On our way rejoicing
Gladly let us go;
Conquered hath our Leader!
Vanquished is our foe!
Christ without, our safety;
Christ within, our joy;
Who, if we be faithful,
Can our hope destroy?
On our way rejoicing,
As we homeward move,
Hearken to our praises,
O Thou God of love!
4 Unto God the Father
Joyful songs we sing;
Unto God the Saviour
Thankful hearts we bring;
Unto God the Spirit
Bow we and adore,
On our way rejoicing
Now and evermore.
On our way rejoicing,
As we homeward move,
Hearken to our praises,
O Thou God of love!
The Hymnal: revised and enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892
First Line: | On our way rejoicing, as we homeward move |
Title: | On Our Way Rejoicing |
Author: | John S. B. Monsell (1863) |
Meter: | 6.5.6.5 D |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
On our way rejoicing as we homeward [onward] move. J. S. B. Monsell. [Joy.] Appeared in his Hymns of Love and Praise, 1863, p. 124, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines, and appointed for the 1st Sunday after Trinity. It was rewritten by him for his Parish Hymnal, 1873, No. 155, the principal change being the addition of the first four lines from stanza i., as a refrain to each stanza. These changes were made to adapt the hymn as a Processional, and appeared elsewhere before the Parish Hymnal.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)