Bread for the Journey - Thanksgiving

Come, Ye Thankful People
George J. Elvey

Come, ye thankful people, come-

Raise the song of harvest home

All is safely gathered in

Ere the winter storms begin.

 

God, our Maker, doth provide

For our wants to be supplied:

Come to God's own temple, come

Raise the song of harvest-home

 

All the world is God's own field,

Fruit unto His praise to yield:

Wheat and tares together sown,

Unto joy or sorrow grown.

 

First the blade and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest grant that we…
Wholesome grain and pure may be.


For the Lord our God shall come
And shall take His harvest home:
From His field shall in that day
All offenses purge away-


In the fire the tares to cast
But the fruitful ears to store
Give His angels charge at last
In His garner evermore.

 

Even so, Lord, quickly come

To Thy final harvest-home:

Gather Thou Thy people in,

Free from sorrow, free from sin;

 

There, forever purified,

In thy presence to abide:

Come, with all Thine angels, come-

Raise the glorious harvest home.