 | Elizabeth Elbourne - 2002 - 542 pagina’s
...mountains,/ From India's coral strand," began one 182.0 missionary hymn. "Where Afric's sunny fountain/ Roll down their golden sand;/ From many an ancient.../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 pagina’s
...Kingston to Cairo. 'From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand', sang the 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... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2003 - 324 pagina’s
...Greenland's icy mountains' BEFORE A COLLECTION MADE FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL2* From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Java's isle, And every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness ^ Reginald Heber (1783-1826),... | |
 | Simon Coleman, John Elsner - 2003 - 178 pagina’s
...Greenland, O India'; rather, they and their barbaric people call us; they solicit our colonial attentions: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...chain. 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... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2003 - 406 pagina’s
...stanza of a hymn by Bishop Reginald Heber, a missionary to India, that his travels brought to mind: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...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... | |
 | Richard J. Mouw - 2004 - 312 pagina’s
...publication in a hymn collection in the United States (it had previously been printed in periodicalsl. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...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 is vile;... | |
 | Kenneth C. Barnes - 2005 - 288 pagina’s
...first verse of which went: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Africa's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From...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... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Brown - 2005 - 401 pagina’s
...mystery. ATTRIBUTED TO IGNACE FRANZ (1719-1790) Translated by Clarence Walworth (1820-1900) 26 Prom Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand,...chain. What though the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile? In vain, with lavish kindness,... | |
 | Philip V. Bohlman, Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer, Maria M. Chow - 2006 - 372 pagina’s
...evangelical foreign mission hymn in America, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" (7.6.7.6.0., Rank i3b): From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...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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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. 
