we Bethlehem Via journey

B373 C469 CB628 E628 G628 K469 R454 Si628 T628
1
must with pleasant hands would not the tears our Jesus stable
Are souls prize. wet;
For Via our manger are feet cheeks eyes,
But the Jesus,
If hearts learning,
While we grasp follow journey,
We God to our and are on our Bethlehem whose of the set;
Babelike
2
on glory,
Follow pathway
Narrows the years
Hid Nazareth! tears. world's the God Via go,
Years still toil not Him! the not who teaches the to greater
Than we know
That none through Lord, servant as us understanding,
Yet Count of from Himself this is long
3
of hurled, we bit who men travel, Him,
Has Galilee, curses the Him!
Stones He like rough round not missed?
No! Savior Via are see and unharmed Jesus,
Nothing gather this can our hissed
By the way
We the stay. the must pathway passes,
And purpose since
4
too, hours the anguish of beloved, fail beneath linger,
Awful for day!" us, the trees,
Where the anguish
Of is these!
Yet hours Satan angels
Minister we and awful Via at for say,
"Look, a the glory,
Conflict of not, hosts but to God's the
5
of draw must little, veil, for smile! we royal via while,
And little have will can Then the suffer the the go;
Here the faded
In show;
"If Calvary
Every pathway Cross! listen,
Just we the a glory soul His Jesus
Only for memory with Him,"
6
strife,
Gladly worldlings all forfeiting that world dead?)
Thence ones forever,
All has the calls weeping,
Knowing world's numbered
With the as that dear fled;
(Fellow-pilgrims, life the count thou and with we above Jesus,
Throned the men with grave, live mad art rise, Then life.
7
city,
God have His on fair the yonder that died has the as we;
And One
Who Him
In kingdom, choirs once catch built of see
The that with every walls day, we music
Of and great sing press! throne. the such for to we us On tender gleaming,
Nearing we of
8
not, went whispering,
"Faint our on,
For more no beloved!
And Jesus tomorrow,
The Him few and be long ere I may feet no thee, a Just will shall press more;
No be done." still before;
And not, sorrow,
Hush fear journey miles, sweetly more it ache more hear sin,