“There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.”
Equally significant was the
Marching Song of Veteran Ministers
When the names of the forty-five retired ministers were called in the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1930, these men who were facing the sunset period of life stood and sang:
“Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord