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Author: Sanford F. Bennett Meter: 9.9.9.9 with refrain Appears in 659 hymnals Topics: Life Everlasting First Line: There's a land that is fairer than day Refrain First Line: In the sweet by and by Lyrics: 1 There's a land that is fairer than day, And by faith we can see it afar, For the Father waits over the way To prepare us a dwelling place there. Refrain: In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore; In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore. 2 We shall sing on that beautiful shore The melodious songs of the blest; And our spirits shall sorrow no more - Not a sigh for the blessing of rest. [Refrain] 3 To our bountiful Father above, We will offer our tribute of praise, For the glorious gift of His love And the blessings that hallow our days. [Refrain] Used With Tune: SWEET BY AND BY

The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want

Author: Francis Rous; William Mure Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 571 hymnals Topics: Life Everlasting Lyrics: 1 The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want; he makes me down to lie in pastures green; he leadeth me the quiet waters by. 2 My soul he doth restore again; and me to walk doth make within the paths of righteousness, e'en for his own name's sake. 3 Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill, for thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still. 4 My table thou hast furnished in presence of my foes; my head thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows. 5 Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me: and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: EVAN Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650

Breathe on me, breath of God

Author: Edwin Hatch, 1835-89 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 339 hymnals Topics: Everlasting Life Lyrics: 1 Breathe on me, breath of God, fill me with life anew, that I may love all that you love and do what you would do. 2 Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure, until with you I will one will, to do and to endure. 3 Breathe on me, breath of God, and all my life refine, until this earthly part of me glows with your fire divine. 4 Breathe on me, breath of God; so shall I never die, but live with you the perfect life of your eternity. Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:6-7 Used With Tune: HAMPTON

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DUKE STREET

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,443 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hatton Topics: The Life Everlasting Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13456 71765 55565 Used With Text: I Know That My Redeemer Lives

LAUDES DOMINI

Meter: 6.6.6 D Appears in 446 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 Topics: Everlasting Life Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34561 76567 13217 Used With Text: When Morning Gilds the Skies

UNCHANGING HAND

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 49 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: F. L. Eiland; Stephen Key Topics: Everlasting Life Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11156 56133 31235 Used With Text: Hold to God's Unchanging Hand

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For God So Loved the World

Author: Stuart Dauermann Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #514 (1990) Meter: Irregular Topics: Life Everlasting First Line: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son Scripture: John 1:11-12 Languages: English Tune Title: FOR GOD SO LOVED

The Life Everlasting

Hymnal: Bible Songs #25 (1901) Topics: Life Everlasting First Line: The Lord before me still I set Scripture: Psalm 16:7-10 Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord before me still I set]

Beyond the everlasting hills

Author: Ernest Edwin Ryden, b.1886 Hymnal: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #295 (1958) Topics: The Life In Christ Life Everlasting Lyrics: 1 Beyond the everlasting hills, Above the starry skies, My spirit seeks the home of peace, Where tears shall dim no eyes. 2 No shadows there shall ever fall, Nor weary night and long; No silver cords shall broken be To hush the sound of song. A-men. 3 There shall I find again the love Of those I cherished here; And friendship's ties shall holier be, And bonds of love more dear. 4 There shall I see thee, O my God, Creator, Saviour, Friend; And with angelic voices join In worship without end. Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ETHELDREDA

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Samuel Crossman

1623 - 1684 Person Name: Dean Samuel Crossman Topics: Communion of Saints and Life Everlasting Author of "O happy place! When shall I be" in The Book of Common Praise Crossman, Samuel , B.D. From A. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1720, vol. ii. p. 730) we gather all that is known of this hymnwriter. Wood says concerning him:— "Samuel Crossman, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge, and Prebendary of Bristol, son of Samuel Crossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He hath written and published several things, as The Young Man's Monitor, &c, London, 1664, 8vo., and several sermons, among which are two sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bristol, 30th Jan., 1679, and 30th Jan., 1680, being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles I, printed at London, 1681, &c.; also a sermon preached 23rd April, 1680, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, before the Gentlemen of the Artillery Company newly raised in that City, printed at London, 1680, &c; and, "An Humble Plea for the quiet rest of God's Ark," preached before Sir Joh. Moore, Lord Mayor of London, at St. Mildred's Church in the Poultrey, 5th February, 1681, London, 1682, 4to, &c. He died 4th February, 1683, aged 69 years, and was buried in the South Aisle of the Cathedral Church in Bristol" [of which he had been appointed Dean a few weeks before]. Crossman's contributions to hymnody were given in a small pamphlet entitled:— The Young Man's Meditation, or some few Sacred Poems upon Select Subjects, and Scriptures. By Samuel Crossman, B.D. London, Printed by J. H., &c, 1664. This pamphlet, which was reprinted by D. Sedgwick, London, 1863, contains 9 sacred poems. Of these the following are in common use:— 1. My life's a shade, my days. Resurrection. This is in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, together with a chorus to each stanza of 4 Lines. It is sometimes given as "Life is a shade, my days," as in Kennedy, 1863. 2. Sweet place, sweet place alone, Pt. i. Jerusalem on high, Pt. ii. These two parts form one poem on Heaven. The most popular portion is Pt. ii. This is given in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. Part i. is not so extensively used. From the two parts the cento "Earth's but a sorry tent," in the Dutch Reformed Hymns of the Church, N. Y. 1869, is also taken. 3. Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Death anticipated. This is given in the Comprehensive Rippon, 1844, and in a few of the older American hymnbooks. 4. My song is love unknown. In the Anglican Hymnbook, 1863 -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Topics: Everlasting Life Composer of "FACE TO FACE" in Great Songs of the Church (Revised) Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.

Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Carrie E. Breck Topics: Everlasting Life Author of "Face to Face" in Great Songs of the Church (Revised) Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

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