Anne Ross Cousin

"Immanuel's Land" lyrics

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But probably the name should be translated, and used as a succinct description of Palestine. This is its great and characteristic peculiarity; it is the " God with us" land. This may be illustrated, and the lesson from it enforced, under the following divisions. It was selected, and other countries were set in relation to it, so that it might be the "God with us," land, in which a special manifestation and relationship of God might be tried, in the face of the whole world.

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The country was remarkably isolated geographically. And it was as remarkably centered. These corrected each other. Israel had the best opportunities for preserving the great truths of the unity and spirituality of God which were entrusted to it. And at the same time it was set in the "eye of the world," so that all nations could watch the singular experiment of the theocracy. That direct and sensible presence of God which was the condition of the covenant was indicated by the Shechinah-symbol in tabernacle and temple.

Samuel Rutherford was a man of great learning and was in great favor with the Bishops and scholars of both Scotland and England.

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He could have chosen an easy way, and he could have lived in luxury as a Bishop of the established church or as one of the greatest university professors of his day; but he turned both aside. He refused to accept the establishment and wrote against the evils of that Church. Some bishops hoped he would be diplomatic and withdraw his writings, but he refused. Charles I ordered Rutherford to be imprisoned in Aberdeen.

Paul in Rome and John Bunyan at Bedford, Rutherford was allowed to go to his own hired house at times. In reading his letters, I did not find one instance of his having murmured or complained of his wretched prison conditions. Others referred to it but he did not. Rutherford lived in the presence of his Lord and King, and his dingy cell became illuminated by the Light of the World.

His prison became to him the Palace of the King. From his prison letters we read: His comfort is more than I ever knew before.

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He has made all His promises good to me, and has filled up all the blanks with His own hand. I would not exchange my bonds for all the plastered joy of this whole world. Oh, what weighing, oh, what telling is in His love! How sweet must He be, when that black, burdensome tree, His own cross, is so perfumed with joy and gladness! Oh, for help to lift Him up by praises on His royal throne! Again he wrote to a friend: It pleases Him to dine and sup with His afflicted prisoner; a King feasts with me, and His 'spikenard casts a sweet smell'.

Put Christ's love to the test, and put upon it our burdens, and then it will appear love indeed; we employ not His love, and therefore we know it not. I verily count the sufferings of my Lord more than this world's over-gilded glory. My Lord has fully recompensed my sadness with His joys, my losses with His presence.

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I find it a rich and sweet thing to exchange my sorrows for Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with Himself. When Charles II came to the throne, Rutherford refused to accept a new "Popish prayer book" and pronounced this infringement an indecency. The wrath of Charles II and the prelates fell on him and he was indicted for treason. He was driven from office and would have been beheaded had not death intervened.

When the officers came to arrest him, Rutherford was near death.

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Immanuel's Land Lyrics: O Christ He is a fountain, a deep sweet well of love / The streams that I have tasted, more deep I'll drink above / And. The fair, sweet morn awakes: Dark, dark hath been the midnight, But dayspring is at hand, And glory—glory dwelleth. In Immanuel's land. 2. Oh! well it is forever.

He smiled at them who would take him prisoner and said: Later he held his hand out and with face beaming, said: My honorable Master and Lovely Lord, my great and royal King, has not a match in heaven or in earth. I have my own guiltiness like any other man, but He has pardoned, loved, washed and given me 'joy unspeakable and full of glory'.

I shall sleep in Christ, and when I awake I shall be satisfied with His likeness. With a wave of his frail hand he said: He had entered the Palace Beautiful, a guest of his "Lovely Lord". Samuel Rutherford was not a hymn writer. Cousin read all the letters of Rutherford and was so thrilled with his life and so filled with the Spirit that was his, that she wrote his testimony in verse about the year Without Christ we have no merit, without Christ we have no stand.

The lamb is all the glory, and our eternal stand!

The original title of this hymn more like a ballad of 19 stanzas is "The Sands of Time are Sinking", inspired by the life of Samuel Rutherford a pastor in the town of Anwoth, Scotland who was banished for his nonconformity and then wrote letters, which Spurgeon held to be 'the nearest thing to inspiration that can be found in all the writings of mere man. The 19th stanza refers to Rutherford's being charged with high treason, but his death intervened before he could be tried.

His epitaph on his tombstone concluded "Aquainted with Immanuel's song. This hymn deeply resonates in my heart sweet, pure, profound, eternal.

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An apt offering of sweet aroma to our dear Beloved who gave His life for us. A marriage song for our Universal Bridegroom. That song was sung many times in Toronto and in Vancouver where I met over many years with some beloved brothers and sisters. Now many years later I offered it by email this day to a brother through whom I was invited to his native India in Now I am impelled by the Lord to return to India for my 16th visit. The central theme of the message the Lord has put on my heart is contained in verse 3 - 'The Bride eyes not her garment, But her dear Bridegroom's face Now our dear Bridegroom is at the very doors!

I will be using this hymn in my wedding in 1 week, and I'm enjoying Christ as my deep sweet well of life!