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Elizabeth Mills was reading a commentary by Bridges on Psalm 119:44: "So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever." Bridges had made the note, "We speak of heaven, but oh, to be there!" These words gave Elizabeth inspiration to write this hymn on the glories of the New Jerusalem.
Elizabeth Mills, nee King, was born in Stoke Newington, North London, in 1805; and died in Finsbury Place, London, on April 21, 1829, only three weeks after writing the hymn, giving particular poignancy to the third stanza. - reference: 1849 Hymns, for God's Peculiar People, that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus "Hymn 3. Heaven"
- reference: Companion to the Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal "Hymn 434. We Speak of The Realms"
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