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NEW
HOPE.
Concluded.
vast
de
-
light,...
What
must
the
joy,
the
tri
-
umph
be...
To
dwell
for
-
ev
-
er
in
Thy
sight.
sight.
vast
de
-
light,...
What
must
the
joy,
the
tri
-
umph
be...
To
dwell
for
-
ev
-
er
in
Thy
sight.
sight.
JACKSON.
L.
M.
"They
were
strangers
and
pilgrims
on
the
earth."-Heb.
11:
13.
Jesse
Mercer,
1825.
Key
of
G.
Major.
M.
F.
McWhorter,
1908.
1.
I
am
a
stran-ger
here
be-low,
And
what
I
am
is
hard
to-know,
I
am
so
vile,
so
prone
to
sin,
I
fear
that
I'm
not
born
a-gain.
gain.
2.
When
1
ex-pe-rience
call
to
mind,
My
un-der-stand-ing
is
so
blind,
All
feel-ing
sense
seems
to
be
gone,
Which
makes
me
think
that
I
am
wrong.
wrong.
3.
I
find
my
self
out
of
the
way,
My
thoughts
are
of-ten
gone
astray,
Like
one a-lone
I
seem
to
be,
Oh,
is
there
an
-
y
one
like
me?
me?
A
sketch
of
Prof.
McWhorter,
the
author
of
the
above
tune,
appears
on
page
516.
under
tune
Denson.
Jesse
Mercer,
the
composer
of
the
words,
was
a
Prim-
itive
Baptist
Minister,
who
resided
at
Washington,
Ga.,
or
at
least
the
words
were
first
published
in
his
hymn
book
in
1830
called
the
"Cluster
"
on
page.
337.
This
tune
was
first
published
in
the
"Union
Harp
and
History
of
Songs,"
by
J.
S.
James
1909
page
212.