1 Pressing on with Jesus to a better place,
Singing songs of joy, songs of praise and love;
Making known the wonders of his boundless grace,
Pressing on with Jesus to joys above.
Chorus:
We are pressing on
With the mighty One,
In the blessed footsteps of God’s holy Son;
Sing we of his love
As we homeward move;
In the path of glory we’re pressing on.
2 Pressing on with Jesus whose great love controls;
Minding naught behind, dreading naught before;
While his precious Spirit floods our happy souls,
Pressing on with Jesus to yonder shore. [Chorus]
3 Pressing on with Jesus, trusting him alone,
Marching in his light to our home above,
Where with earth’s redeemed ones, gathered round his throne,
We shall praise forever Redeeming Love. [Chorus]
Source: Inspiring Songs No. 1: for the Sunday school #28
Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
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