“We'll Understand It Better By and By” | VERSE 1: We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time, somber skies and howling tempests oft succeed a bright sunshine; In that land of perfect day, when the mists have rolled away, we will understand it better by and by. CHORUS: By and by, when the morning, when the saints of God are gathered home; We'll tell the story how we've overcome, for we 'll understand it better by and by. VERSE 2: We are often destitute of the things that life demands, want of food and want of shelter — thirsty hills and barren lands; We are trusting in the Lord, and according to His word, we will understand it better by and by. CHORUS: By and by, when the morning, when the saints of God are gathered home; We'll tell the story how we've overcome, for we'll understand it better by and by. VERSE 3: Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understand, all the ways that God would lead us to that blessed Promised Land; But He guides us with His eye and we'll follow till we die, we will understand it better by and by. CHORUS: By and by, when the morning, God are gathered home; We'll tell the when the saints of story how we’ve overcome, for we'll understand it better by and by. VERSE 4: Temptations, hidden snares often take us unawares: and our hearts are made to bleed for many a thoughtless word or deed; and we wonder why the test when we've tried to do our But we’ll understand it better by and by. “L best. CHORUS: By and by, when the morning, when the saints of God are gathered home; We'll tell the story how we've overcome, for we'll understand it better by and by. (3)