HYMN Lyrics Text: When He Comes Back

When he comes back (2)

Our lamps will be burning

To welcome him.

When he comes back

1. The master has promised

That he will return

On a night when there’s no one

Expecting to see him at all.

Keep oil in the lamps

So they’re ready to burn

In the night of his secrel,

When those who are waits

He’ll call

2. Look not for his presence

In heaven’s dark space

By the light

Of our living on earth.

We’ll discover his face

For the face of the master

Is always at hand.

In the hungry, the poor,

In the stranger, the tace of a man.

3. This stranger will search

For his home in the night.

And then how will he find it

Unless all the windows are bright?

But if we are waiting

Why, then he’ll come in

And there will be a homecoming,

With dancing and singing within.