How Cheering Is the Christian’s Hope

How cheering is the Christian’s hope,
While toiling here below!
It buoys us up while passing through
This wilderness of woe.
It buoys us up while passing through
This wilderness of woe.

It points us to a land of rest,
Where saints with Christ will reign;
Where we shall meet the loved of earth,
And never part again.
Where we shall meet the loved of earth,
And never part again.

Fly, lingering moments, fly, O fly;
Dear Savior, quickly come!
We long to see Thee as Thou art,
And reach that blissful shore.
We long to see Thee as Thou art,
And reach that blissful shore.

Author: Unknown

This hymn appears in 19th-century shape-note and Sacred Harp collections (e.g., The Sacred Harp, 1844 and later editions) but is typically listed without a named author or composer. It is sometimes attributed simply as 'anonymous' or 'traditional' in hymnals. No strong evidence links it to a specific well-known writer such as Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, or John Newton.