Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: There is a land of pure delight (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1815

Compiler: John Thompson et al

Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace

First Line: There is a land of pure delight

Topic: Longing for Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 281

Page Number: 237, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

There is a land of pure delight,

Where saints immortal reign;

Infinite 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,

While Jordan roll'd between.



There everlasting spring abides,

And never with'ring flowers;

Death like a narrow sea, divides

This heav'nly land from ours.



But tim'rous mortals start and shrink,

To cross this narrow sea,

And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink;

And fear to launch away. 



O could we make our doubts remove,

Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And see the Canaan that we love,

With unbeclouded eyes.



Could we but climb where Moses stood,

And view the Landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,

Could fright us from the shore.