Dwelling in Beulah Land

No longer will they call you Deserted,

or name your land Desolate.

But you will be called Hephzibah

and your land, Beulah.

For the Lord will take delight in you,

and your land will be married.

Isaiah 62:4 

Our hymn today does not come from my all-time favorites list.  The first time I heard this song was in May of 2002.  I was the new Music Director at a church named Beulah.  Every spring, they had a homecoming Sunday – Beulah Day - and sang Dwelling in Beulah Land as the closing hymn of the service.  For almost two decades, I have feasted on the manna from a bountiful supply, as we sang Dwelling in Beulah Land.

C. Austin Miles (1868-1945) was a pharmacist in Philadelphia who decided to trade prescfriptions for hymns after publishing his first gospel song.  For many years, he was the Music Editor of Hall-Mack Publishing Company, which eventually became the Rodeheaver Company.  His hymns include A New Name Written Down in Glory, In the Garden, and Dwelling in Beulah Land.

 

Jake Toney, Guy Penrod, Bill & Gloria Gaither