Happy Are They

Verse 1

Happy are they, they that love God, whose hearts have Christ confest, who by his cross have found their life, and 'neath his yoke their rest.

Verse 2

Glad is the praise, sweet are the songs, when they together sing; and strong the prayers that bow the ear of heaven's eternal King.

Verse 3

Christ to their homes giveth his peace, and makes their loves his own: but ah, what tares the evil one hath in his garden sown!

Verse 4

Sad were our lot, evil this earth, did not its sorrows prove the path whereby the sheep may find the fold of Jesus' love.

Verse 5

Then shall they know, they that love him, how all their pain is good; and death itself cannot unbind their happy brotherhood.