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" Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes... "
The Canadian Monthly and National Review - Pągina 307
editat per - 1876
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Neo-Hindu Views of Christianity

Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 236 pągines
...(1822-26). The hymn is entitled, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," and includes the following verse: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's...vile. In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God arc strewn. The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.49 While use of the word "heathen"...
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The Meaning and End of Religion

Wilfred Cantwell Smith - 1991 - 360 pągines
...Methodist Hymn-Book, with tunes, London, Wesleyan Conference Office, 1904, number 770, runs as follows: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. The hymn had extremely wide use in...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pągines
...July 1755, The Complete Poor Richard Almanacks, facsimile ed., vol. 2, p. 270 (1970). 1147 What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile? REGINALD HEBER, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" (hymn), From Greenland's Icy Mountains, p. 23...
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The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Glenn C. Wilcox - 1993 - 366 pągines
...cntuii. 2 What though the spicy broeia Blow soft o'er Ceylon 'a isle. Though every prospect please*, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness. The gifts of God ore strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are...
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The One Year Book of Hymns

William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - 1995 - 772 pągines
...land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases. And only man is vile? In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted...
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The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity

John F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - 336 pągines
...missionaries towards the peoples of the Third World: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is...strewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.75 Isaiah's global perspective can be recognized in many of these hymns too, in their frequent...
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Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964

Andrew Jon Rotter - 2000 - 372 pągines
...hymnals and sang Bishop Reginald Heber's "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," which included this verse: What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. After they sang, congregants might...
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The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology

Theodore Roszak - 2001 - 388 pągines
...eagle or the buffalo to whom they otfered their prayers as human beings dressed up in feathers or hide. "The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone." The words, redolent with centuries of arrogance, are from a hymn written by a British missionary stationed...
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Imperialism And Music: Britain 1876-1953

Jeffrey Richards - 2001 - 552 pągines
...many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Can we whose souls are lighted With...
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The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution

Gerald Weissmann - 2002 - 312 pągines
...blight"'J with the old self -righteousness of the Cross, as in Reginald Heber's Hymn to a March: What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. HEBER( 1783- 1826) Another, somewhat...
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