Highway to Heaven

March 25, 2017

This is a song that we heard about 2 or so years ago and my husband said that it described him very well. - C. I. Wilson

The old preacher man stood there in the pulpit

The church house was empty, almost

His eyes filled with tears, his mind filled with memories

Of not so long ago,

When the church house was full not one pew was empty

The altar was stained with saints tears.

As he stands there this morning sounds out the warning

Once again letting them know

There’s a heaven to gain

And a hell to shun

The way is still straight

There’s a race to be run

And you can live as you please

But you must pay the cost

And the highway to heaven still goes by the cross.

Some of his members thought he was old fashioned

Not willing to change with the times

So they found other churches more modern then Preacher’s

That were willing to let thing’s go by

But the old preacher stood for what he believed in

And what he had preached for 40 years

As he stands there this morning

In a near empty church house

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