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[There is a land of pleasure]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Batchelder Bradbury Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 34554 32126 21 Used With Text: Land of Pleasure
[There is a land of pleasure]
The Land of Pleasure
Appears in 96 hymnals First Line: There is a land of pleasure Used With Tune: [There is a land of pleasure]
The Land of Pleasure
Land of Pleasure
Author: Alexander Campbell Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10268 First Line: There is a land of pleasure Lyrics: 1 There is a land of pleasure,
Where streams of joy for ever roll,
’Tis there I have my treasure,
And there I long to rest my soul.
Long darkness dwelt around me,
With scarcely once a cheering ray,
But since my Savior found me,
A lamp has shone along my way.
But since my Savior found me,
A lamp has shone along my way.
2 My way is full of danger,
But ’tis the path that leads to God;
And like a faithful soldier,
I’ll march along the heavenly road;
Now I must gird my sword on,
My breastplate, helmet, and my shield,
And fight the hosts of Satan
Until I reach the heavenly field.
And fight the hosts of Satan
Until I reach the heavenly field.
3 I’m on the way to Zion,
Still guarded by my Savior’s hand;
O, come along, dear sinners,
And view Emmanuel’s happy land:
To all that stay behind me,
I bid a long, a sad farewell!
O come! or you’ll repent it,
When you shall reach the gates of hell.
O come! or you’ll repent it,
When you shall reach the gates of hell.
4 The vale of tears surrounds me,
And Jordan’s current rolls before;
O! how I stand and tremble,
To hear the dismal waters roar!
Whose hand shall then support me,
And keep my soul from sinking there?
From sinking down to darkness,
And to the regions of despair?
From sinking down to darkness,
And to the regions of despair?
5 This stream shall not affright me,
Although it take me to the grave;
If Jesus stand beside me,
I’ll safely ride on Jordan’s wave:
His word can calm the ocean,
His lamp can cheer the gloomy vale:
O may this Friend be with me,
When through the gates of death I sail!
O may this Friend be with me,
When through the gates of death I sail!
6 Come, then, thou king of terrors,
Thy fatal dart may lay me low;
But soon I’ll reach those regions
Where everlasting pleasures flow:
O sinners, I must leave you,
And join that blessed immortal band,
No more to stand beside you,
Till at the judgment bar we stand.
No more to stand beside you,
Till at the judgment bar we stand.
7 Soon the archangel’s trumpet
Shall shake the globe from pole to pole.
And all the wheels of nature
Shall in a moment cease to roll.
Then we shall see the Savior,
With shining ranks of angels come,
To execute His vengeance,
And take His ransomed people home.
To execute His vengeance,
And take His ransomed people home.
Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a land of pleasure]
Land of Pleasure
The Land of Pleasure
Hymnal: Bradbury's Golden Shower of S.S. Melodies #8 (1862) First Line: There is a land of pleasure Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a land of pleasure]
The Land of Pleasure
William B. Bradbury
1816 - 1868 Person Name: William Batchelder Bradbury Composer of "[There is a land of pleasure]" in The Cyber Hymnal William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
William B. Bradbury
Alexander Campbell
1788 - 1866 Author of "Land of Pleasure" in The Cyber Hymnal Campbell, Alexander. (Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, September 12, 1788--March 4, 1866, Bethany, West Virginai). Disciple. Grew up in the Irish branch of the splinter-group off of the Church of Scotland (Anti-burgher Seceder Church); studied a year at the University at Glasgow, while en route to the U.S. to join his father, Thomas Campbell. Both men having individually left the Seceder group (1809), and subsequently having accepted the necessity of immersion as the proper mode of baptism, they and their growing group of "Reformers" were accepted into membership in a Baptist association in the (West) Virginia-Pennsylvania-Ohio area in 1813; they were separated from the Baptists in 1830; in 1832, the Campbell group merged with a Kentucky group known simply as "Christians;" out of the Campbell-Stone merger came the mid-twentieth-century denomination know as the International Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) as well as the non-instrumental-music Churches of Christ. Campbell compiled Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs for his followers in 1828; after the merger mentioned above he helped combine the various existing books, contributing six original hymns to the resulting Christian Hymn Book of 1835. (None of these original hymns has survived in 20th-century Disciple collections.) Elected president of the first national Disciple convention, 1849. He maintained direct control over the Brotherhood's official hymnal until 1864, when he turned it over to the Convention, with the understanding that the committee to revise the next edition (dated 1865) be approved by him and the convention. Although as a hymn-writer he seems to have had little permanent success, he must have exerted a strong stabilizing influence on the hymnody of the Disciples well beyond his own lifetime.
--George Brandon, DNAH Archives
Alexander Campbell
