Beautiful Beckoning Hands

Beautiful hands at the gateway tonight,

Faces all shining with radiant light;

Eyes looking down from yon heavenly home,

Beautiful hands they are beckoning "come."

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Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

Calling the dear ones to heavenly lands;

Beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

Beautiful, beautiful, beckoning hands.

Beckoning hands of a mother whose love

Sacrificed life her devotion to prove;

Hands of a father to memory dear,

Beckon up higher the waiting ones here.

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Beautiful hands of a little one, see!

Baby voice calling, O mother, for thee;

Rosy cheeked darling, the light of the home,

Taken so early is beckoning "come."

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Beckoning hands of a husband, a wife,

Watching and waiting the loved one of life;

Hands of a brother, a sister, a friend,

Out from the gateway tonight they extend.

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Brightest and best of that glorious throng,

Center of all and the theme of their song;

Jesus, our Savior, the piercèd One stands,

Lovingly calling with beckoning hands.

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