 | 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...ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous... | |
 | Villeroi (fict. name.) - 1835 - 304 pages
...attended the Infant-school, and she brought them to Willy's bedside, and they all began to sing : ' There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers. Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
 | John Rippon, Isaac Watts - Bible - 1836 - 922 pages
...paleness on my cheek, And glory in my soul.] Hymn 66. B. 2. CM A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy. is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign,...3 [Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 600 pages
...the 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... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...leads us 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...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alida Gersie - Performing Arts - 1991 - 348 pages
...of re-incarnate beings, or at a foreseen time of resurrection. With Isaac Watts we might then say: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 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. 
