Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: There is a land of pure delight

Topic: The Christian's Hope Rank Honors and Future Glory

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 330

Page Number: 399, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THERE is a land of pure delight,

Where saints in glory reign:

Infinite day excludes the night,

And pleasures 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 beyond the swelling flood

Stand dress'd in living green;

So to the Jews old Canaan stood,

While Jordan roll'd between.



Yet tim'rous mortals start and shrink

To cross this narrow sea;

And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,

And fear to launch away.



When I ascend where Moses stood,

And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream nor death's cold flood

Can fright me from the shore.