 | Ezra Squier Tipple - 1916 - 388 páginas
...my Saviour bleed,' and that stirring song of the heavenly home which is usually sung to 'Varina' — There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. The volume which Asbury read and which must have strongly impressed him was the one entitled, Sermons... | |
 | William James McKnight - 1917 - 648 páginas
...I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. The first stanza of the second hymn was : There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. One by one, these early pioneer Christians have left for this "land of pure delight" to occupy these... | |
 | 1918 - 144 páginas
...gladness and joy. and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." "There is a land of pure delight, ruherc saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain." In brilliant lines Alfred Kunner says: "Write it in letters of gold. Write it upon the face of the... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1919 - 326 páginas
...father and sister to sing to him his favourite hymn, and they sat in the chamber of death and sang: — "There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." "The ethereal purity of his spirit," said the surviving comrade, "has not been lost to the universe... | |
 | Norma Lorimer - 1921 - 324 páginas
...into Charybdis and . . ." "In Sicily I used to sing an old hymn, which went like this :" Christine began to sing, "There is a land of pure delight, where saints immortal dwell. I changed the word 'saints' into 'gods' to suit my surroundings." "That is no answer, Signora.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...been there, and still would go; Tis like a little heaven below. ISAAC WATTS — Divine Songs. 28. 3 jntoe. IX. 5. 19 Oh. how cruelly sweet are the ISAAC WATTS — Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Bk. II. 66. 4 One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 1924 - 442 páginas
...glory Of things that soon are old. And death for the just is but going to a happy and permanent home. There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. But the City of God which the hymns predict will rise in the earth as the climax of human welfare and... | |
 | Clara Endicott Sears - 1924 - 366 páginas
...to hear the old hymns of his childhood days, and they gathered about him, and at his request sang: "There is a land of pure delight, Where Saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." He seemed to find great solace in these words. Then they sang to him: "Happy the spirit released from... | |
 | Frederick John Gillman - 1927 - 340 páginas
...the meadows of Netley, as their living green shimmered against the blue across Southampton Water :— There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 1 This hymn is No. 72, Book I, of the Hymns, and is headed " Christ Jesus the Lamb of God, worshipped... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 600 páginas
...the Rev. Tosiah Henson, Died May 5, 1883. Born July 15, 1789. Aged 93 years, 10 mos., and five days. There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night And blessings banish pain. "1 know that my Redeemer liveth." Farther along the road stands the house in... | |
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THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.... 
