Adventist Pioneer Library

The Church — Dedication

The perfect world by Adam trod

  • No. 1133
  • Words Benjamin Beddome.
  • 4 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

The perfect world by Adam trodWas the first temple built by God;His fiat laid the corner-stone,And raised its pillars one by one.

2

He hung its starry roof on high—The broad expanse of azure sky;He spread its pavement, green and bright,And curtained it with morning light.

3

The mountains in their places stood,The sea, the sky, and all—"was good."And when its first pure praises rang,The "morning stars together sang."

4

Lord, 't is not ours to make the seaAnd earth and sky a house for thee;But in thy sight our offering stands,—An humbler temple, "made with hands."

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «1133» (large) in the left column of p. 385, below stanza 4 of hymn 1132 and «Anon.», with the reference line «212, 301, 336,» in italic figures beside it (sing to the tunes of hymns 212 PARK STREET, 301 ROCKINGHAM or 336 BROCKHAM, all L. M.; no meter is printed — the lines 8.8.8.8 are L. M.); the line ends with a comma, not a full stop, in this print. The first word «THE» is set in capitals and small capitals (written «The» here). Stanzas numbered «1»–«4» without periods (written «1.»–«4.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); in this hymn ALL four lines of each stanza are set flush (no indentation of lines 2 and 4), and they are written so here. «Benjamin Beddome.» in italics, right-aligned after stanza 4. The printer's thin space before «;» («God ;», «sky ;», «thee ;») and after the opening quotation marks («— " was good."», «The " morning») is closed up here; the curly quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight. «'t is» (st. 4) is printed with a space between «'t» and «is» and kept so. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
The Church — Dedication · No. 1133 · printed page 385
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02