[Music]
Lift up your heads, Emmanuel's friends,
And taste the pleasure Jesus sends;
Let nothing cause you to delay,
But hasten on the good old way.
Our conflicts here, tho' great they be,
Shall not prevent our victory,
If we but watch, and strive, and pray!
Like soldiers in the good old way.
O good old way, how sweet thou art!
May none of us from thee depart;
But may our actions always say
We're marching in the good old way!
"A tune and song [words] of the Granade period", William Hauser,
compiler of the _Olive Leaf_ suggests. John Adam Granade was an
evangelist of the "wild" sort who lived 1775 to 1806. A negro tune
which combines elements of the above and 'I Went Down to the Valley',
in this collection, is in _Slave Songs_, No. 104.
No. 73
REST IN HEAVEN, OL 358