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The Beautiful Land
Appears in 73 hymnals First Line: There is a land immortal Used With Tune: [There is a land immortal]
The Beautiful Land
[There is a land immortal]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frank L. Armstrong Incipit: 55323 21123 46543 Used With Text: There Is a Land Immortal
[There is a land immortal]
[There is a land immortal]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Henry Cornell (1828- ) Incipit: 33355 11144 45333 Used With Text: There Is a Land Immortal
[There is a land immortal]
There Is a Land Immortal
Hymnal: Pure Delight #72 (1883) Refrain First Line: Oh, beautiful land! Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a land immortal]
There Is a Land Immortal
There Is a Land Immortal
Author: Thomas Mackellar Hymnal: Winnowed Songs for Sunday Schools #106 (1890) Refrain First Line: Oh, beautiful land! Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a land immortal]
There Is a Land Immortal
There Is A Land Immortal
Author: George MacKellar Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #13150 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6.8.8.7.6 Lyrics: 1 There is a land immortal,
The beautiful of lands;
Beside the ancient portal
A sentry grimly stands.
He only can undo it,
And open wide the door;
And mortals who pass through it,
Are mortals never more.
Refrain:
Oh beautiful, beautiful land!
Oh beautiful, beautiful land!
Amid its fields of glory
May we in safety stand.
2 That glorious land is Heaven,
And Death the sentry grim;
The Lord therefore has given
The opening keys to him.
And ransomed spirits, sighing
And sorrowful for sin,
Do pass the gate in dying,
And freely enter in. [Refrain]
3 Though dark and drear the passage
That leadeth to the gate,
Yet grace comes with the message,
To souls that watch and wait;
And, at the time appointed,
A messenger comes down,
And leads the Lord’s anointed
From cross to glory’s crown. [Refrain]
4 Their sighs are lost in singing,
They’re blessed in their tears;
Their journey heav’nward winging,
They leave to earth their fears.
Death like an angel seemeth—
"We welcome thee," they cry;
Their face with glory beameth—
’Tis life for them to die. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: BAR HARBOR
There Is A Land Immortal
Friedrich Silcher
1789 - 1860 Person Name: F. Silcher Composer of "[There is a land immortal]" in Royal Gems
Friedrich Silcher
Thomas MacKellar
1812 - 1899 Person Name: George MacKellar Author of "There is a land immortal" in Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) Mackellar, Thomas, was born in New York, Aug. 12, 1812. At the age of 14 he entered the printing establishment of Harper Brothers. In 1833 he removed to Philadelphia and joined the type-foundry firm of Johnson & Smith, as proof reader. He subsequently became a foreman, and then a partner in that firm, which has been known from 1860 as Mackellar, Smiths, and Jordan, type-founders of Philadelphia. His publications include The American Printer, 1866, a prose work, and the following in verse:—
(1) Droppings from the Heart, 1844; (2) Tam's Fortnight Ramble, 1847; (3) Lines for the Gentle and Loving, 1853; (4) Rhymes Atween Times, 1872. The last contains some of his hymns. (5) Hymns and a few Metrical Psalms, Phila. 1883 (71 hymns, 3 psalms), 2nd edition, 1887 (84 hymns, 3 psalms).
Those of his hymns in common use include :—
1. At the door of mercy sighing. Lent. Published in his Rhymes Atween Times, 1872, as, "Long of restful peace forsaken," and again in Dr. Hitchcock's Hymns & Songs of Praise, 1874, as "At the door of mercy sighing."
2. Bear the burden of the present. Resignation. Written in 1852, and published in his Lines for the Gentle and Loving, 1853; and Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. Part of this hymn, beginning "All unseen the Master walketh," was in common use in Great Britain.
3. Book of grace, and book of glory. Holy Scripture. Written in 1843. It was given in the Sunday School Union Collection, 1860, and his Hymns and a few M. Psalms, &c, 1883, and a few collections, including Allon's Children's Worship, 1878, &c.
4. Draw nigh to the Holy. Jesus, the soul’s Refuge. In Sumner's Songs of Zion, 1851, and the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868, in 5 st. of 8 1ines.
5. Father, in my life's young morning. A Child's Prayer. Written in 1841.
6. In the vineyard of our Father. Work for God. Written in 1845. It was given in the Hymns for Church & Home, Philadelphia, I860, and other collections.
7. Jesus! when my soul is parting. Continued presence of Jesus desired. Written in 1848, and included in Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines, and entitled "Jesus first and last."
8. There is a land immortal. Heaven. Mr. Mackellar says that this hymn was written
"One evening as a fancy suddenly struck me of a religious nature, I laid aside the work in hand, and pursuing the new idea, I at once produced the hymn, ‘There is a land immortal,' and sent it to the editor [of Neale's Gazette], who referred to it as a religious poem from ‘Tam,' my assumed name, under which I had already acquired considerable notoriety. This was in 1845. It was widely copied, and afterwards inserted in a volume published by me." Duffield's English Hymns, &c, 1886, p. 551.
Mr. Mackellar was an Elder of the Presbyterian Church. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Mackellar, T., p. 708, ii. Additional hymns are:— (1) "I have no hiding-place" (Safety in Jesus), (2) “I will extol Thee every day" (Praise to God). These are dated 1880 and 1871 respectively in Stryker's Church Songs, N. Y., 1889. He died Dec. 29, 1899.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Mackellar, T., pp. 708, ii.; 1578, ii. He died Dec. 29, 1899. His hymn, “O the darkness, O the sorrow" (Redemption through Christ), was written in 1886, and added to the latest 1668 editions of his Hymns & Metrical Psalms. It is found in Summa Corda, 1898, and several other collections. His Hymns and Poems were collected and published in 1900. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Thomas MacKellar
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan Composer of "THERE IS A LAND IMMORTAL" in Songs of Praise and Prayer Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas.
Bert Polman
Arthur Sullivan
