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THE
SPIRITUAL
SAILOR.
7s
&
6s.
"Yet
if
any
man
suffer
as
a
Christian,
let
him
not
be
ashamed,
but
let
him
glorify
God
on
this
behalf,1
-PETER
4:16.
Key
of
A
Minor.
I.
NEIGHBOND,
date
not-known.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
1. The
peo
-
ple
call
-
ed
Chris
-
tians,Have
ma
-
ny
things
to
tell
A
-
bout
the
land
of
Ca-naan,
Where
saints
and
an-gels
dwell;
Ma
-
ny
have
been
im
-
pa
-
tient
To
work
their
pas
-
sage
through,And
with
u
-
nit
-
ed
wis
-
dom
Have
tried
what
they
could
do;
3.
The
ev
-
er
-
last
-
ing
gos
-
pel,
Hath
launched
the
deep
at
last,
Be
-
hold
the
sails
ex
-
pand
-
ed,
A
-
round
the
tow'ring
mast!
4.
We're
now
on
the
wide
o
-
cean,
We
bid
the
world
fare
-
well,
And
tho'
where
we
shall
an
-
chor
No
hu-man
tongue
can
tell;
5.
To
those
who
are
spec
-
ta
-
tors,
What
an
-
guish
must
en
-
sue,
To
hear
their
old
com
-
pan-ions,
Bid
them
a
last
a
-
dieu!
6.
The
pas
-
sen
-
gers
u
-
nit
-
ed,
In
or
-
der
peace
and
love,
The
wind
is
in
our
fa
-
vor,
How
swift-ly
do
we
move!
But
here
a
dis
-
mal
o
-
cean
En
-
clos
-
ing
them
a
-
round
With
its
tides,
still
di
-
vides
Them
from
Canaan's
hap
-
py
ground.
But
ves
-
sels
built
by
hu
-
man
Skill
have
nev
-
er
sailed
for,
Till
we
find
them
a
-
ground
On
some
dread-ful,
sand
-
y
bar.
A
-
long
the
deck
in
or
-
der
The
joy
-
ful
sail-ors
stand,
Cry-ing,
"Ho!-here
we
go
To
E
-
man-uel's
hap
-
py
land.
A
-
bout
our
fu
-
ture
des
-
tiny
There
need
be
no
de
-
bate,
While
we
ride
on
the
tide,
With
our
Cap-tain
and
his
Mate.
The
pleas-ures
of
your
par
-
adise,
No
more
our
hearts
in
-
vite,
We
will
sail-you
may
rail,
We
shall
soon
be
out
of
sight.
Though
tem-pests
may
as
-
sail
us,
And
rag-ing
bil-lows
roar,
We
will
sweep
thro'the
deep,
Till
we
reach
fair
Ca-naan's
shore.
"The
Spiritual
Sailor"
is
an
old
minor
melody.
It
has
been
in
a
number
of
old
books.
"The
Columbian
Harmony,"
Missouri
Harmony,"
dating
from
early
in
the
Nineteenth
Century.
It
has
been
in
all
editions
of
the
"Sacred
Harp"
from
1844
to
1869.
Alto
has
been
added
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.
See
Southern
Har-
mony,
1835,
page
41.