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HEAVENLY
VISION.
Taken
from
Rev.
5-11.
Key
of
G.
Wm.
Billings.
Thousands
of
thousands,
and
I
be-held,
and
lo
a
great
mul-ti-tude,
which
no
man
could
number:
Thousands
of
I
beheld,
and
lo
Thousands
of
thousands,
and
ten
times
Thousands
of
thousands,
and
ten
times
thousands,
thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thou
-
-
sands,
Thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thousands,
Thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thou-sands,
thousands,
and
ten
times
thousands,
thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thou
-
sands,
Thousands
of
thousands,
and
ten
times
thousands,
thousands
of
thousands,
and
ten
times
thou
-
sands,
thousands
of
thousands,
and
ten
times
thou-sands,
thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thousands,
thousands
of
thousands
and
ten
times
thou-sands.
thousands
of
thousand
and
ten
times
thousands
of
thou
sands
Heavenly
Vision
is
one
of
the
old
American
Anthems,
as
appeared
in
the
early
publications
of
Wm.
Billings.
He
has
the
dis-
tinction
of
being
the
first
American
who
composed,
compiled
and
published
a
sacred
song
book.
He
was
born
in
Boston,
1746,
and
died
there
in
1800.
His
remains
lie
in
an
unmarked
grave,
in
the
old
Granary
Burying
Ground,
in
the
city
of
his
birth.
Heavenly
Vision
has
appeared
in
a
number
of
song
books,
in
Lowell
Mason's
Sacred
Harp,
about
1830,
Missouri
Harmony
in
1835,
in
the
B.
F.
White
Sacred
Harp,
1844,
The
Hesperian
Harp,
in
1847,
in
McCurry's
Social
Harp,
1854,
in
one
of
Andrew
Law's
books,
of
a
much
earlier
date,
than
any
of
the
above.
It
has
also
been
published
in
a
number
of
other
four
shaped
note
books,
as
well
as
seven
shape
and
round
note
books.
Heavenly
Vision
is
one
of
Billings'
great
Anthems.
It
is
taken
from
Rev.,
chapter
5,
verse
11.