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HEAVENLY
LAND.
C.
M.
"Thine
eyes
they
shall
behold
the
land."-Isa.
33
:
17
R.
F.
M.
M
ANN,
1857.
ISAAC
WATTS.
Key
of
G
Major.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
There
is
a
land
of
pure
de-light,
Where
saints
im
-
mor-tal
reign;
In
-
fi
-
nite
day
excludes
the
night,
And
pleasures
ban-ish
pain.
A
number
of
sketches
of
R.
F.
M.
Mann, author
of
the
music
of
"Heavenly
Land,"
can
be
found
in
connection
with
his
tunes
in
this
volume;
also
"James'
His-
tory
of
the
Sacred
Harp,"
page
115,
see
sketch
of
Isaac
Watts,
author
of
the
words,
numerously
stated
in
these
statements
in
various
parts
of
this
edition.
THE
DYING
MINISTER.
C.
M.
"In
due
season
we
shall
reap,
if
we
faint
not."-GAL.
6:
9.
E.
D.,
1854.
Key
of
F
Major.
By
Eld.
E.
DUMAS,
1854.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
1.
The
time
is
swift-ly
roll
-
ing
on,
When
I
must
faint
and
die;
My
bod-y
to
the
dust
re-turn,
And
there
for
-
got
-
ten
lie.
2.
Let
per-se
-
cu
-
tion
rage,
a-round,
And
An-ti
-
christ
ap-pear:
My
si-lent
dust
beneath
the
ground,
There's
no
dis
-
turbance
there.
3. My
broth-er
preachers,
fare
you
well,
Your
fel-low
-
ship
I
love;
In
time
no
more,
I
shall
you
see,
And
soon
we'll
meet
a
-
bove.
The
above
tune
was
composed
by
Elder
E.
Dumas
in
1854.
He
was
a
Georgian
Minister
of
the
Primitive
Baptist
Church.
He
composed
sixteen
tunes
in
this
book.
He
was
one
of
the
revisers
in
1869.
He
died
and
was
buried
at
Forsyth,
Georgia,
in
1884.
He
was
a
member
of
both
the
Southern
and
Chattahoochee
Musical
Conventions.
See
full
sketch
of
him
in
"James'
History
of
the
Sacred
Harp,"
page
107.
It
is
supposed
that
he
arranged
the
words
at
the
same
time
that
he
com-
posed
the
music.
Alto
added
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.