Face To Face

A young missionary couple to China was taken by terrorists to a lonely spot on a hill. When the executioner took his long knife from his shoulder, the courageous couple, expecting immediate death, began singing this hymn. To their surprise the executioner shouldered his axe-like knife and released the missionaries.


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Face to face with Christ my Sav-ior, 

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Face to face what will it be 

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When with rap-ture I be-hold Him, 

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Je-sus Christ who died for me? 

chorus 

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Face to face I shall be-hold Him, 

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Far be-yond the star-ry sky; 

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Face to face in all His glo-ry, 

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I shall see Him by and by!

verse 2
Only faintly now I see Him,
With the darkened veil between,
But a blessed day is coming
When His glory shall be seen.

verse 3
What rejoicing in His presence
When are banished grief and pain,
When the crooked ways are straightened
And the dark things shall be plain.

verse 4
Face to face! O blissful moment!
Face to face, to see and know;
Face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ who loves me so.