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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>ON JORDAN’S STORMY BANKS I STAND</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.” Revelation 21:23</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_t_stennett_s.jpg" alt="Samuel Stennett (1727-1795)" width="130.666666666667" height="194.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_t_stennett_s.html" target="_blank">Samuel Stennett</a>, in <em>Selection of Hymns</em>, by John Rippon, 1787.
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<p><em>Music:</em> Miss M. Durham, <em>The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion</em>, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_walker_w.html" target="_blank">William Walker</a> (New York: Hastings House, 1835); arranged by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_c_mcintosh_rm.html" target="_blank">Rigdon McCoy McIntosh</a>, 1895 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stormy.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_a_walker_w.jpg" alt="William Walker (1809-1875)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"></td>
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<p>On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,<br>
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And cast a wishful eye<br>
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To Canaan’s fair and happy land,<br>
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Where my possessions lie.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p class="refrain">I am bound for the promised land,<br>
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I am bound for the promised land;<br>
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Oh who will come and go with me?<br>
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I am bound for the promised land.</p>
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<p>O the transporting, rapturous scene,<br>
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That rises to my sight!<br>
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Sweet fields arrayed in living green,<br>
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And rivers of delight!</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>There generous fruits that never fail,<br>
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On trees immortal grow;<br>
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There rocks and hills, and brooks and vales,<br>
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With milk and honey flow.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>O’er all those wide extended plains<br>
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Shines one eternal day;<br>
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There God the Son forever reigns,<br>
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And scatters night away.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>No chilling winds or poisonous breath<br>
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Can reach that healthful shore;<br>
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Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,<br>
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Are felt and feared no more.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>When I shall reach that happy place,<br>
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I’ll be forever blest,<br>
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For I shall see my Father’s face,<br>
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And in His bosom rest.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>Filled with delight my raptured soul<br>
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Would here no longer stay;<br>
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Though Jordan’s waves around me roll,<br>
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Fearless I’d launch away.</p>
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