| Eli Smith - 1833 - 238 pągines
...no country on earth 3 25 in the prosperity and happiness of its inhabitants*. But when - " only ipan is vile, In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown." Egypt, the granary of the surrounding regions in the time of Jacob, is still, owing to the fertilizing... | |
| Edward Davies (of Kingswinford.) - 1834 - 266 pągines
...whole universe shall be But one great temple, Lord, for thee ! HYMN 112. The call of the Heathen. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only... | |
| Lowell Mason - 1834 - 582 pągines
...love of Christ constraining, > Join to help them, ere they die. 490 PM Missionary Hymn. 1 1 1 FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. pi I 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases,... | |
| 1834 - 320 pągines
...their dying cry ; And, the love of Christ constraining, Join to help them, ere they die. 334 PM . FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand,...plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's cham. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases,... | |
| Hymns - 1834 - 294 pągines
...employ ; Ye blind, behold your Saviour come, And leap, ye lame, for joy. HYMN 124. Missionary. FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand,...plain, They call us to deliver, Their land from error's drain. What, though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases,... | |
| Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - 1834 - 760 pągines
...HYMN 375. 7 & 6. Missionary Hymn. [*] Come over and help us. I T71ROM Greenland's icy mountains, JC From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. p 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And... | |
| William Gannaway Brownlow - 1834 - 312 pągines
...this is, when its objects and bearings are /ally understood. "From Greenland's icy mountains, v'1 •* From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains....plain, .,',, They call us to deliver > Their land from errors' cha'm."' But the anti-slavery and abolition societies of the Northern and Eastern states, in... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pągines
...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...only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifU of God arc strown, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone ! Can we, whose... | |
| Martin E. Marty - 1987 - 358 pągines
...of their task. Their hymns reflected the new sense of geography: From Greenland's icy mountains To India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. "Error's chain" might mean that the "heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone." This was... | |
| 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...In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.69 While use of the word "heathen"... | |
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