 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4831839Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Elbourne - 2002 - 542 pages
...strand," began one 182.0 missionary hymn. "Where Afric's sunny fountain/ 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."1'1 Van der Kemp looked on the wars that greeted him as the "strugglings of Satan with a view... | |
 | Catherine Hall - 2002 - 584 pages
...congregations, Where Afric's sunny fountains. Roll down their golden sand, From many an ancient rivet, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. Having helped to raise money to send missionaries overseas, the assembled faithful would sing of their... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2003 - 324 pages
...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,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, And every prospect pleases, And only man... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2003 - 406 pages
...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,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. MT commented: "Those are beautiful verses, and they have remained in my memory all my life. But if... | |
 | Simon Coleman, John Elsner - 2003 - 178 pages
...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,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases And only... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 pages
...notorious by Rudyard Kipling, of a "white man's burden." These far-off peoples are pleading for help: From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain,...call us to deliver their land from error's chain. Efforts to heed their call will prove burdensome. They will not show gratitude, and many will persist... | |
 | Richard J. Mouw - 2004 - 312 pages
...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,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Tho' every prospect pleases, And only man... | |
 | Kenneth C. Barnes - 2005 - 288 pages
...icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Africa'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.31 The goal of winning the "dark continent" for Christianity figured large in the thinking of... | |
 | Robert Brown - 2005 - 401 pages
...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,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only... | |
 | Philip V. Bohlman, Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer, Maria M. Chow - 2006 - 372 pages
...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 claim. As the foreign mission cause gained popularity in antebellum America, hymn texts like Heber's... | |
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