The Beautiful Gates of Gold

Are you walking the path that is leading

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Are you walking the path that is leading]
Published in 10 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Are you walking the path that is leading
To the homeland of beauties untold?
Are the pastures in which you are feeding,
Near the beautiful gates of gold?

Refrain:
O the beautiful gates of gold,
O the beautiful gates of gold;
Are you walking today in the heavenward way,
To the beautiful gates of gold?

2 Are you walking the path of delusion,
Far away on the mountains so cold;
Or, the broadway of sin and confusion
Far away from the gates of gold? [Refrain]

3 Soon the journey of earth shall be ending,
And the story of life will be told;
Shall your pathway, unerring, be wending
Tow'rd the beautiful gates of gold? [Refrain]

4 Will you come to the Savior for guidance
To this land rich with blessing untold?
He will show you the pathway of radiance
That will lead to the gates of gold. [Refrain]

Source: The King of Kings: a choice collection of gospel songs, standard hymns, choruses, children's songs, solos, duets, and quartets together with responsive readings for use in evangelistic meetings... #36

Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Are you walking the path that is leading
Title: The Beautiful Gates of Gold
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O the beautiful gates of gold
Copyright: Public Domain

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Brotherhood Hymns #56

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Favorite Hymns #68

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Songs of Redemption #d12

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The King of Kings #36

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Wonder Hymns of Faith #53

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