 | Hymns - 1834 - 294 pages
...fix our eyes, A.nd praise employs our breath. HYMN 128. Death easy in the prospect of heaven. THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs ; Death like a narrow sea divides This... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Hymns - 1834 - 472 pages
...that eternal home above; And, O my God ! shall I be there? 475. CM WATTS. The Promised Land. 1 THERE is a land of -pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the nighi, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death,... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Bible - 1834 - 582 pages
...Corinth. 4UO Tht heaveniy Canaan. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, ." And never-fadmg flowers ; Death, like a rforrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields,... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - Hymns, English - 1834 - 572 pages
...ocercome by the hope of heacen. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign; Unchanging day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides Death, like a narrow sea, divides And never-withering flowers; 3 We tim'rous mortals start and shrink... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 600 pages
...Rev. Tosiah Henson, Died May 5, 1883. Born July 15, 1789. Aged 93 years, 10 mos., and five days. There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night And blessings banish pain. "1 know that my Redeemer liveth." Farther along the road stands the house in... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - Hymns - 1924 - 396 pages
...things that soon are old. And death for the just is but going to a happy and permanent home. There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. But the City of God which the hymns predict will rise in the earth as the climax of human welfare and... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...to his heav'nly seat : His mercies ever shall endure, When this vain world shall be no more. There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...idiosyncrasy of that Protestant claim to literal vision which rejoiced in the New Jerusalem: There is a land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal reign;...Day excludes the Night, And Pleasures banish Pain. There everlasting Spring abides, And never-withering Flowers; Death like a narrow Sea divides This... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - Music - 1982 - 196 pages
...believer, is the substance of the famous hymn "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy" (LXVI): 1 There is a Land of pure Delight Where Saints Immortal reign;...banish Pain. 2 There everlasting Spring abides, And never- withering Flowers: Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. 3 Sweet Fields... | |
 | Richard Crawford - Music - 1984 - 258 pages
...Jor- dan roll'd_beSo, to the Jews old Ca- naan_ stood ,While_ Jor- dan roll'd_ between . tween. tween. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring...narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
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THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 
