{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec79.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec79.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec79.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\nO happy band of pilgrims,\n \u00a0\u00a0If onward ye will tread\n With Jesus as your Fellow\n \u00a0\u00a0To Jesus as your Head!\nO happy, if ye labour\n \u00a0\u00a0As Jesus did for men:\n O happy, if ye hunger\n \u00a0\u00a0As Jesus hunger\u2019d then!\nThe Cross that Jesus carried\n \u00a0\u00a0He carried as your due:\n The Crown that Jesus weareth\n \u00a0\u00a0He weareth it for you.\nThe Faith by which ye see Him,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Hope, in which ye yearn,\n The Love that through all troubles\n \u00a0\u00a0To Him alone will turn,\u2014\nWhat are they, but vaunt-couriers\n \u00a0\u00a0To lead you to His Sight?\n What are they, save the effluence\n \u00a0\u00a0Of Uncreated Light?\nThe trials that beset you,\n \u00a0\u00a0The sorrows ye endure,\n The manifold temptations\n \u00a0\u00a0That Death alone can cure,\u2014\nWhat are they, but His jewels\n \u00a0\u00a0Of right celestial worth?\n What are they but the ladder,\n \u00a0\u00a0Set up to Heav\u2019n on earth?\nO happy band of pilgrims,\n \u00a0\u00a0Look upward to the skies:\u2014\n Where such a light affliction\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall win you such a prize!","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: The Pilgrims of Jesus","type":"page"}