Dearer than life, thou know’st, I love
Thy church establish’d here,
Happy in age, in death, to prove
Her prosperous messenger;
Still happier, after death might I
Her glorious blessings share,
And meet her children in the sky,
And meet her husband there.
Dearer than life, Thou know’st, I love
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall prosper that love thee.”—[Psalm] cxxii. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 332.
Publishing: Public Domain