Composed by John Newton, this well-known hymn on the Christian's anticipation of heaven was published in the Olney Hymns (1779, Book III, No. 58) in six stanzas of four lines under the title "Home in View." Using the metaphor of a weary traveler reaching a hilltop and catching sight of home, the hymn expresses the believer's joy at glimpsing the heavenly Jerusalem at the end of life's arduous pilgrimage. The text gained widespread popularity in early hymnals across Great Britain and North America, particularly in American collections where it was frequently abbreviated and altered. An exception favoring Newton's original unabridged text was the Baptist Psalms and Hymns (1858). A Latin translation omitting the second stanza was prepared by the Reverend Richard Bingham and published in his Hymnologia Christiana Latina (1871).
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