O So Beautiful and Bright!

There's a land that enraptures the sight

Author: John S. Norris
Tune: [There's a land that enraptures the sight]
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1 There’s a land that enraptures the sight,
Oh, so beautiful! Oh, so beautiful!
There our lov’d ones are fill’d with delight,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!
There the holy are singing sweetest songs,
There they praise Him to whom praise belongs;
In that land ever radiant with light,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!

2 In that land naught can ever affright,
Oh, so beautiful! Oh, so beautiful!
There they know neither sorrow nor night,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!
There with Christ evermore they sweetly rest,
By His love they will always be blest,
In that land ever radiant with light,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!

3 If we work with the King for the right,
Oh, so beautiful! Oh, so beautiful!
He will robe us in garments of white,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!
Saved by grace, full and free, it shall be well,
With our Lord and belov’d we shall dwell,
In that land ever radiant with light,
Oh, so beautiful and bright!

Source: Gospel Herald in Song #20

Author: John S. Norris

Rv John Samuel Norris United Kingdom/USA 1844-1907. Born at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, he emigrated to the US when young and attended school in Canada. He was ordained a Methodist minister in Oshawa, ON, in 1868. Over the next decade he pastored at churches in Canada, NY, and WI. He switched to the Congregationalist denomination in 1878, serving churches in Mondovi, Shullsburg, and Hixton, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI. From 1882 -1901 he held pastorates at Ames, Webster City, Parkersburg, Peterson, and Tripoli, IA.. He died in Chicago, IL. John Perry Go to person page >

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First Line: There's a land that enraptures the sight
Title: O So Beautiful and Bright!
Author: John S. Norris
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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