 | American Tract Society - Hymns, English - 1835 - 224 pages
...! Hear the dreadful sound, " Depart !" ETERNITY. 287. Death easy in prospect of Heaven. CM 1 rpHERE is a land of pure delight, •*• Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1835 - 562 pages
...earthly tie, With steady confidence, I fly To him from whom I rose. HYMN 147. CM A Prospect of Heaven. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the nightT And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-fading flowers ; Death,... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...from Western shore towards the New Forest that he was inspired to write later the familiar words : "There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...powerful idiosyncrasy of that Protestant claim to literal vision which rejoiced in the New Jerusalem: There is a land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal...There everlasting Spring abides, And never-withering Flowers; Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields beyond the swelling... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - Music - 1982 - 196 pages
...suffering 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...Day excludes the Night, And Pleasures banish Pain. 2 There everlasting Spring abides, And never- withering Flowers: Death like a narrow Sea divides This... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...Lathrop 266 . THERE IS A LAND There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain; There everlasting Spring abides , And never -whith'ring flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields... | |
 | Richard Crawford - Music - 1984 - 258 pages
...,While_ Jor- dan roll'd_ between . tween. tween. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs; Death, like a 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,... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 332 pages
...saying, 'A man is dead'; but angels throng about him, saying, 'A man is born." Henry Ward Beecher ' There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." FACE TO FACE "Oh, sometimes my faith sees Jesus coming o'er the stormy sea. And the waves are stilled,... | |
 | Howard Dorgan - Religion - 1990 - 260 pages
...earthly existence drags on, and I yearn to join my loved ones who have preceded me into that glory." There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.2 The pain alluded to here is often that which comes from being "left behind" when loved ones... | |
 | Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...evermore My dwelling-place shall be. Scottish Psalter 1 650 For a further version of Psalm 23 see 77 460 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
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THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 
