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Thread #15101 Message #2999459
Posted By: Jim Dixon
04-Oct-10 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Dwelling in Beulah Land ^^^
Subject: Lyr Add: DWELLING IN BEULAH LAND (C. Austin Miles)
The sheet music in the Levy collection is a "theme and variation" composition for piano only. (It might not even be the same song.)
Musical notation for 4 voices, with the following lyrics, can be seen in Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete, edited by R. E. Winsett (Chattanooga: R. E. Winsett, 1908), page 236:
[I have boldfaced the words that are different from the version in the DT. Note there is one additional verse.]
DWELLING IN BEULAH LAND
(C. Austin Miles)
1. Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is falling.
Then I know the sins of earth beset on every hand.
Doubt and fear and things of earth in vain to me are calling.
None of these shall move me from Beulah land.
CHORUS: I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sky. (Praise God!)
I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry.
O yes! I'm feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply,
For I am dwelling in Beulah land.
2. Far below the storm of doubt upon the world is beating.
Sons of men in battle long the enemy withstand.
Safe am I within the castle of God's word retreating.
Nothing then can reach me. 'Tis Beulah land.
3. Let the stormy breezes blow. Their cry cannot alarm me.
I am safely sheltered here, protected by God's hand.
Here the sun is always shining. Here there's naught can harm me.
I am safe forever in Beulah land.
4. Viewing here the works of God, I sink in contemplation,
Hearing now His blessed voice, I see the way He planned.
Dwelling in the Spirit, here I learn of full salvation.
Gladly will I tarry in Beulah land.