Christ My Song - 1893
What is our sweetest joy? - To a Fellow Traveller
(Charlotte Elliott/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
To a Fellow Traveller.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusteth in thee."
(Isaiah 26,3)
1. What is our sweetest joy?
beloved companion! say;
what our delightful, best employ,
untiring, free from all alloy,
in this dark cloudy day?
To speak together of our home,
looking for him who soon will come. PDF - Midi
2. Where do our spirits find
refreshment and repose?
When heart to heart, and mind to mind,
we search those records God designed
to medicine all our woes;
and feel, as bright its pages shine,
each line was traced by Love divine.
3. We look on all around
as soon to disappear;
we listen to the tempest's sound,
as wildly now it sweeps around,
without an anxious fear;
we hear a voice amidst its swell
which whispers – "All will soon be well!"
4. Yes, soon the Lord will come;
then will all troubles cease;
earth's kingdoms will his own become;
proud antichrist will meet his doom,
all will be joy and peace:
these very storms prepare his way,
and usher in that glorious day.
Charlotte Elliott, Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, 61-62.