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Text: | From Greenland's Icy Mountains |
Author: | Reginal Heber, 1783-1826 |
Tune: | MISSIONARY HYMN |
Composer: | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 |
1 From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand,
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile?
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation
Has learned Messiah's name.
4 Waft, waft, ye winds, His story,
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole:
Till o'er our ransomed nature
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
Amen.
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First Line: | From Greenland's icy mountains |
Title: | From Greenland's Icy Mountains |
Author: | Reginal Heber, 1783-1826 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1957 |
Topic: | Missions: General; Soul Winning |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MISSIONARY HYMN |
Composer: | Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 |
Key: | E Major |