Come, let us join our friends above

422 Dundee (French). C. M.

1 Come, let us join our friends above,
   That have obtained the prize,
   And on the eagle wings of love
   To joy celestial rise.

2 Let all the saints terrestrial sing,
   With those to glory gone;
   For all the servants of our King,
   In earth and heaven, are one.

3 One family, we dwell in Him,
   One Church above, beneath;
   Though now divided by the stream,
   The narrow stream of death.

4 One army of the living God,
   To His command we bow;
   Part of His host has crossed the flood,
   And part is crossing now.

5 Even now by faith we join our hands
   With those that went before,
   And greet the blood-besprinkled bands
   On the eternal shore.
                         Charles Wesley
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition

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This hymn by Charles Wesley occurs in a little over 340 hymnals. And again, as usual for a Wesley hymn, there are more verses. Hymnary.org lists these:

5 His militant, embodied coast,
   With wishful looks we stand,
   And long to see that happy coast,
   And reach that heavenly land.

7 Lord Jesus, be our constant Guide,
   And when the word is given,
   Bid the cold waves of death divide,
   And land us all in heaven.

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