...converts in their midst, serenaded them with the missionary hymn "From Greenland's Icy Mountains": From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error 's chain. Can we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The...

...generation. Scriptures: Matthew 9:37-38; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:; Themes: Missions, Stewardship, Salvation From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...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,...

..."Missionary Hymn," which begins From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Africa's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand: From...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 9. Trovatore: // Trovatore (1853), by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). "Wally" is an attempt to represent...

...Reginald Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta, at a time when Australia was an unvisited part of his diocese: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand. One of the first workmen to reach the goldfield of Bendigo instantly thought of that verse when he...

...remote, inscrutable king. For the first time since Christmas Jackson sings in his wistful baritone, From Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral...Afric's sunny fountains roll down their golden sand. ... As the sun edges higher — as high as it will reach today — its colours subtly alter, persimmons...

...took only twenty minutes to write but endured for over a century as the signature missionary hymn: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral...plain, They call us to deliver, Their land from error's chain.75 and scenes reworked traditional Orientalist themes of the sort Edward Said found most objectionable.76...

...missionary movement were inextricably linked with those of empire: In the words of a triumphalist hymn, "From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain,...call us to deliver their land from error's chain." Between the world wars, a call had gone out to "evangelize the world in one generation," and it set...

...Greenland's Icy Mountain' - the curious missionary hymn of deliverance adopted and adapted by the UNIA: From Greenland's icy mountains From India's coral...sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain11 There was faint chance of African...