Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

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

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: There is a land of pure delight

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Hymn Number: 121

Page Number: 067, 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.