My heav’nly home is bright and fair,
Nor pain nor death can enter there;
Its glitt’ring towers the sun outshine,
That heav’nly mansion shall be mine.
Refrain
I’m going home, I’m going home,
I’m going home to die no more,
To die no more, to die no more,
I’m going home to die no more.
My Father’s home is built on high,
Far, far above the starry sky;
When from this earthly prison free,
That heav’nly mansion mine shall be. Refrain
Let others seek a home below,
Which flames devour, or waves o’erflow;
Be mine a happier lot to own
A heav’nly mansion near the throne. Refrain
About the writer: William Hunter, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Ireland in 1811 but came to America as a child. He graduated from Madison College in 1833 and was for a number of years professor of Hebrew and Biblical Literature at Alleghany College. He was editor of the Pittsburg Christian Advocate from 1844 to 1852 and was the author of a large number of hymns, which he published in his Select Melodies (1838-1851) and Songs of Devotion (1860). He died in 1877.
Key Verse: There are many rooms in my Father’s home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. –John 14:2