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