By faith we now the cloud look through

Verse 1
By faith we now the cloud look thro’,
With blest, anticipating view
Of brighter days behind,
When Jesus, making wars to cease,
Brings in an everlasting peace
To us, and all mankind.

Verse 2
Dispersing the infernal gloom,
His kingdom shall, as lightning come,
And shine from east to west
The trumpet of the gospel-word
Shall then announce our glorious Lord,
And lull the world to rest.

Verse 3
The savage Tribes, an injur’d Race,
Americans shall then embrace
Their God so long unknown;
The servile progeny of Ham
Shall prostrated at Jesus name
Their dear Redeemer own.

Verse 4
The Crescent to the Cross shall yield,
The Turks and Heathens be compel’d
Their Sovereign to confess,
And Jews, who pierc’d his hands and side
Discern Jehovah crucified,
Their true Messiah bless.

Verse 5
Then all religious Babels cease,
And all into the kingdom press
Of God reveal’d below,
And fountains open’d from above
In streams of pure, celestial love
The new-made earth o’reflow.

Verse 6
O who, when God doth this, shall live?
The men that dare the truth receive
The promise made to me
Who trust to stand in that great day,
When Christ his glory shall display,
And God for ever see!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Hymn X. Part II.” This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Patriotism.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Introduced in The Protestant Association, Written in the Midst of the Tumults, June 1780 (London: J. Paramore, 1781).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 486.
Publishing: Public Domain