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MOUNT
PLEASANT.,
C.
M.
"We
have
a
building
of
God,
an
house
not
made
with
hands,
eternal
in
the
heaven."
2-Cor.
5-1.
Isaac
Watts
1719.
Key
of
F
Major.
James
Leach
1789.
There
is
a
house
not
made
with
hands,
E
-
ter
-
nal,
and
on
high,
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait
-
ing
stands,
till
God
shall
bid
it
fly.
There
is
a
house
not
made
with
hands,
E
-
ter
-
nal,
and
on
high,
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait
-
ing
stands,
till
God
shall
bid
it
fly.
And
here
my
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait-
ing
stands,
till,
God
shall
bid
it
fly,
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait-
ing
stands,
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait
-
ing
stands,
Till
And
here
my
spir
- it
wait
-
ing
stands,
Till
God
shall
bid
it
fly,,
Till
God
shall
bid
it
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait
-
ing
stands,
Till God
shall
bid
it
fly,
Till
God
shall
bid
it
fly
fly.....
spir-it
wait-ing
g
stands,
Till
God
shall
bid
it-
-
-
fly
And
here
my
spir
-
it
wait
-
ing
stands,
Till
God
shall
bid
it
James
Leach
was
a
Master
musician.
He
was
an
Englishman
born
at
Wadley,
near
Lanchashire,
1762.
He
was
a
great
tenor
singer.
In
1789
he
published
a
new
set
of
hymns
and
Psalm
tunes,
and
a
revised
eddition
1794.
His
tunes
are
found
in
several
of
the
American
collection,
Easy
Instructor,
Albany,
N.
Y.
1798,
Bridgwater
Collection
(Boston
1802
The
David
Companion
or
Methodist
Standard
Baltimore
1810
contains
forty-eight
of
his
pieces.
Among
his
church
of
Englsh
Psalmody
will
be
found
Mount
Peasant,
Oldham,
Smyrna:
and
a
number
of
other
valuable
tunes.
A
large
part
of
his
tunes
were
republished
in
1886,
with
a
Biographi-
cal
sketch
by
Thomas
Newbigging.
Leach
died
from
an
accident
received
1798,
and
was
buried
at
Rockdale,
England.
See
history
of
Isaac
Watts
in
other
sketches
in
this
book.
Also
see
tune
in
Missouri
Harmony
1827,
1837,
page
199.