 | American Tract Society - 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...banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields,... | |
 | William Bourn Oliver Peabody - 1835 - 426 pages
...fainting hearts of ours Be kindled at the glorious view. Mrs. Steele. 211. CM Prospect of Heaven. 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 heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields... | |
 | 1835 - 604 pages
...And never-fading flow'rs; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Bright fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in...fair Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start, and shrink To cross the narrow sea; And linger, trembling on the brink, And... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1835 - 636 pages
...And never-fading flow'rs ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Bright fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in...fair Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start, and shrink To cross the narrow sea ; And linger, trembling on the brink, And... | |
 | William Bourn Oliver Peabody - 1835 - 390 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There, everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand, dressed in living green ; So, to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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;...withering Flowers: Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. 3 Sweet Fields beyond the swelling Flood Stand drest in living Green: So to... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 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 reign;...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,... | |
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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. 
