Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: There is a land of pure delight

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Ford of England

Meter: CM

Tune: Biggleswade

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 105, 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,

And pleasures banish pain.



There everlasting spring abides,

And never-fading flowers;

Death, like a narrow sea, divides

This heavenly 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.



Could we but climb where Moses stood,

And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream nor Death's cold flood

Should fright us from the shore.