 | Hymns - 1834 - 294 pàgines
...things we 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...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs ; Death like a narrow sea divides This heav'nly land from ours : Sweet fields... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pàgines
...he used to break forth in sudden ejaculations of prayer, and frequently repeat these verses : — * There is a land of pure delight ' Where saints immortal...excludes the night, ' And pleasures banish pain.' ' There I shall see his face, ' And never, never sin ; 'There, from the rivers of his grace, ' Drink endless... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 pàgines
...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 - 1980 - 376 pàgines
...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...banish Pain. There everlasting Spring abides, And never-withering Flowers; Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - 1982 - 196 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pàgines
...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 beyond... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 1985 - 332 pàgines
...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 - 1990 - 260 pàgines
...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 - 1989 - 540 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alida Gersie - 1991 - 348 pàgines
...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...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.1 If we did indeed... | |
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THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 
