"The Saints in Christ Are One in Every Place"

I was looking at "The Saints in Christ Are One in Every Place" last week and noticed a small musical feature in it.  The hymn is sung to the tune "Woodlands."  Here's the last musical phrase:

In the third verse, the text here is "Then be with Christ, to live forevermore."  "Forevermore" is sung to a total of nine beats, the most of any word in the entire hymn, and this length provides a sense of the word's meaning.