...CM [#orb] Land of Delight. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain....like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan...

...sweet, more lond, And Christ shall be onr sang. HYMN 115-CM A prospect of Heaven makes death easy. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...And pleasures banish pain 2 There everlasting spring abide*, And never- Withering flow'rs; Death like a narrow sea divides This heav'nly land fromoure....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...(1. 19-20) CH; HAP; Mes; MoShBr; NOEC; OxBChV; OxBoLi; Par; PoEL-3 There Is a land of pure delight 8 e green valleys. At ninety-six * 9 Degenerate sons . (1. 1—4) ELP; NOCV; NoP; OBD; TOP; WGRP When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 9 When I survey the wondrous...