afterwhile

The devil tries to throw down Everything that’s good, He’d fix a way to confine The righteous if he could, Thanks be to God almighty, he cannot be beguiled, Ole satan will be done fightin’ afterwhile.

Preachers in their sermons stand up and tell the truth, They’ll go about and murmur with slander and abuse; They want the whole arrangement to suit their selfish style, God’s goin’ to rain down fire afterwhile.

Afterwhile, afterwhile, God’s goin’ to change our station, afterwhile.

Some men and women who help the world along, By constantly complaining of everything that’s done, They want to be called Christians and all their badness hide, God’s goin’ to open the secret afterwhile.

To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile."