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Missionary Hymn

Southern Harmony no. 111

First Line:	From Greenland's icy mountains
Composer:	Treble by James Langston
Source:	Baptist Harmony, p. 338.
Meter:	7, 6
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1. From Greenland's icy mountains,
   From India's coral strand;
   Where Afric's sunny fountains
   Roll down their golden sand:
   From many an ancient river,
   From many a palmy plain,
   They call us to deliver
   Their land from error's chain.

2. What though the spicy breezes
   Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
   Though every prospect pleases,
   And only man is vile?
   In vain with lavish kindness
   The gifts of God are strown;
   The heathen in his blindness
   Bows down to wood and stone.

3. Shall we, whose souls are lighted
   With wisdom from on high,
   Shall we to men benighted
   The lamp of life deny?
   Salvation! O salvation!
   The joyful sound proclaim,
   Till earth's remotest nation
   Has learned Messiah's name.

4. Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
   And you, ye waters, roll,
   Till, like a sea of glory,
   It spreads from pole to pole:
   Till o'er our ransomed nature
   The Lamb for sinners slain,
   Redeemer, King, Creator,
   In bliss returns to reign.
 

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