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Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part Lyrics: 1 Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part; Since we are all bound up in heart, No length of days, no distant place, Can ever break these bands of grace. 2 Parting with joy, we'll join to sing The wonders of our bleeding King; Our distant bodies may remove, But nothing shall divide our love. 3 In vain may earth and hell combine To quench that love which is divine; It will not cease with dying breath, Nor cool, when we are cold in death. 4 And now, in love with Jesus' name; Let bodies part and spread his fame, That other souls may learn their woe, And share with us in glory too. 5 A few more rolling days or years, Shall bring a periodd to our tears; Soon we shall reach the blissful shore, Where parting hours are known no more 6 There shall our souls adore the hand That led us through this desert land; Lose all our grief, forget our pains, And join in everlasting strains.

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Pilgrims Parting Hymn

Hymnal: A New Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, from various authors—some entirely new (3rd Windsor Ed.) #VII (1793) First Line: Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part Lyrics: 1 Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part; Since we are all bound up in heart, No length of days, no distant place, Can ever break these bands of grace. 2 Parting with joy, we'll join to sing The wonders of our bleeding King; Our distant bodies may remove, But nothing shall divide our love. 3 In vain may earth and hell combine To quench that love which is divine; It will not cease with dying breath, Nor cool, when we are cold in death. 4 And now, in love with Jesus' name; Let bodies part and spread his fame, That other souls may learn their woe, And share with us in glory too. 5 A few more rolling days or years, Shall bring a periodd to our tears; Soon we shall reach the blissful shore, Where parting hours are known no more 6 There shall our souls adore the hand That led us through this desert land; Lose all our grief, forget our pains, And join in everlasting strains. Languages: English

Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part

Author: Henry Alline Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist #S92 (1840)

Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part

Author: Henry Alline Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, for the Use of Christians. (8th ed.) #b189 (1840) Languages: English

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Henry Alline

1748 - 1784 Author of "Pilgrims, with pleasure let us part" Alline, Henry. (Newport, Rhode Island, January 14, 1748--January 28, 1784, Northampton, New Hampshire). Congregationalist/"New Light". In 1760 his family took up land near Hampden, Nova Scotia, far from any school or church; hence the spiritual experience which, in 1775, impelled him to begin preaching found him with the drive and magnetism, but without the solid grounding, of a Wesley or a Whitefield. His stress on the "new light," and the revival meetings which he conducted all over Nova Scotia had no connection with the American Revolution beyond coincidence in time; yet that was enough to alarm the authorities. He had sermons, tracts, and probably sheets of hymns printed at Halifax before the peace treaty of 1783 allowed him to cross the newly-drawn boundary safely; but tuberculosis felled him before he could go far. Rev. David McClure, in whose house he died, extracted verses from his manuscripts and published them (Boston, 1786) as Hymns and Spiritual Songs. These were used by Alline's Nova Scotia converts while, and after, they drifted into the Baptist orbit, as well as by the converts his associates went on to make in the United States, who eventually emerged as the Free-Will Baptists. See: Bumsted, J.M. (1971). Henry Alline, 1748-1784. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives ============================================ Alline, Henry [Allen], born at Newport, R. I., June 14, 1748, was some time a minister at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, and died at North Hill, N.S., Feb. 7, 1784. Alline, whose name is sometimes spelt Alten, is said to have founded a sect of “Allenites," who maintained that Adam and Eve before the fall had no corporeal bodies, and denied the resurrection of the body. These peculiar views may have a place in his prose works, but they cannot be traced in his 487 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in five books, of which the 3rd ed., now rare, was published at Dover and Boston, U.S.A., 1797, and another at Stoningtonport, Conn., 1802. Of these hymns 37 are found in Smith and Jones's Hymns for the Use of Christians, 1805, and some in later books of that body. The best of these hymns, "Amazing sight, the Saviour stands," from the first edition of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1790?), is preserved in Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, No. 569, where it is given anonymously from Nettleton's Village Hymns, also in the Baptist Praise Book, and others. Alline's hymns are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ========================