This Week's Dulcimer Arrangement "Beulah Land"

Hello Everyone!

           hope you all have had a great week. This week's free dulcimer hymn arrangement is "Beulah Land." It's a hymn written by the famous writer Edgar Page Stites (1836-1921). To tell you the truth, many sources say that this hymn is one of the many reasons for his popularity. 

Stites wrote an account of the origins of hymn years after is was written: "It was in 1876 that I wrote ‘Beulah Land.’ I could write only two verses and the chorus, when I was overcome and fell on my face. That was one Sunday. On the following Sunday I wrote the third and fourth verses, and again I was so influenced by emotion that I could only pray and weep. The first time it was sung was at the regular Monday morning meeting of Methodists in Philadelphia. Bishop McCabe sang it to the assembled ministers. Since then it is known wherever religious people congregate. I have never received a cent for my songs. Perhaps that is why they have had such a wide popularity. I could not do work for the Master and receive pay for it."

Hope you all enjoy the arrangement and hope to see you next week!

              -Ben

"Beulah Land"