Shall we meet beyond the river, Where the surges cease to roll?

Shall we meet beyond the river, Where the surges cease to roll?

Author: Horace L. Hastings
Tune: [Shall we meet beyond the river] (Rice)
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1 Shall we meet beyond the river,
Where the surges cease to roll?
Where, in all the bright forever,
Sorrow ne'er shall press the soul?

Refrain:
Shall we meet, shall we meet,
Shall we meet beyond the river?
Shall we meet beyond the river,
Where the surges cease to roll?

2 Shall we meet in that blest harbor
When our stormy voyage is o'er?
Shall we meet and cast the anchor
By the fair, celestial shore? [Refrain]

3 Shall we meet in yonder city,
Where the towers of crystal shine?
Where the walls are all of jasper,
Built by workmanship divine? [Refrain]

4 Shall we meet with Christ our Savior,
When he comes to claim his own?
Shall we know his blessed favor,
And sit down upon his throne? [Refrain]

Source: The Christian Sunday School Hymnal: a compilation of choice hymns and tunes for Sunday schools #80

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Author: Horace L. Hastings

Born: No­vem­ber 26, 1831, Bland­ford, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: Oc­to­ber 21, 1899. Buried: Go­shen, Mass­a­chu­setts. Hastings be­gan hymn writ­ing and preach­ing at age 17, and worked as an evan­gel­ist in var­i­ous parts of Amer­i­ca. In 1866, he es­tab­lished The Christ­ian, a month­ly pa­per, in which ma­ny of his hymns ap­peared. In 1865, he found­ed the Scrip­tur­al Tract Re­pos­i­tory in Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts. His works in­clude: Social Hymns, Orig­in­al and Se­lect­ed (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1865) Songs of Pil­grim­age, a Hymn­al for the Churche­s of Christ, Part 1, 1880 The Hast­ings Birth­day Book, 1886, ex­tracts from his prose writ­ings Lyric… Go to person page >

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Author: Horace L. Hastings
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A Collection of Evergreen Hymns, for All the People. New ed. #d125
A Collection of Spiritual Hymns: adapted to the Various Kinds of Christian Worship, and especially designed for the use of the Brethren in Christ. 2nd ed. #882Image
A Companion to the Canadian Sunday School Harp: being a selection of hymns set to music, for Sunday schools and the social circle #129Image
A Companion to the Canadian Sunday School Harp: being a selection of hymns set to music, for Sunday schools and the social circle #174Image
A Manual of Devotion and Hymns for the House of Refuge, City of New York #391Image
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A Selection of Hymns: printed only for the use of the sabbath school of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia #18Image
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Alexander's Hymns No. 3 #d46
American Sunday School Hymn Book. New ed. #d13
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Brightest Glory: a collection of choice original hymns and tunes, by our best composers, for the Sunday schools, young people's meetings, and all religious gatherings #71Image
Calvary Hymns #d194
Chapel Treasures (Christ Chapel Sabbath-School, Lebanon, PA) #349Image
Chautauqua Carols: a collection of favorite songs suitable for all Sunday School services #107Image
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Choice Collections #d155
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Christ in Song #d480
Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #921Image
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Christian Hymn and Tune Book, for use in Churches, and for Social and Family Devotions #692Image
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Christian Hymnal, a Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs Suitable for Use in Public Worship #d445
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Church and Sunday School Hymnal, a Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs ... [with Deutscher Anhang] #163Image
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Everlasting Praises No. 2 #d110
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Excellent Songs for the Church and Sunday School #63Image
Favorite Hymns for Sunday Schools, Gospel Services, Young People's Meetings and the Home #34Image
Fount of Blessing: a choice collection of sacred melodies, suitable for sunday schools, bible classes, prayer and praise meetings, gospel temperance meetings, and the home circles #111Image
Garnered Gems of Sunday School Song #76Image
Gates of Praise for the Worship of God and Use in His Service. Rev. ed. #d91
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Give Thanks and Sing; for Religious Meetings #d140
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Gospel Praise Book: a collection of choice gems of sacred song suitable for church service, gospel praise meetings, and family devotions #87Image
Gospel Praise Book.: a collection of choice gems of sacred song suitable for church service, gospel praise meetings, and family devotions. (Complete ed.) #87
Gospel Rays #d208
Gospel Searchlight Songs: a Book of Selected Gospel Hymns of the WorldÕs Greatest Composers #d153
Gospel Song-Gems No.1 #45Image
Gospel Songs and Hymns No. 1 #214Image
Gospel Songs No. 2 #d133
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Great Revival Hymns No.2 #340Image
Great Songs of the Church #d309
Greatest and Lasting Hymns #d275
Greatest Hymns for use in the Churches #d263
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Hallowed Songs #d297
Hallowed Songs: a collection of the most popular hymns and tunes, both old, and new, designed for prayer and social meetings, revivals, family worship, and Sabbath schools #360Image
Hallowed Songs: for prayer and social meetings, containing hymns and tunes, carefully selected from all sources, both old and new, and are of the most spiritual..(Newly Revised) #72Image
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Heavenly Recruit Praise Hymns #d80
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Hosannas to the King, No.2 #d139
Hymn-Songs: for use in the Sunday school, young people's meeting, the church and home #123Image
Hymnal Adapted to the Doctrines and Usages of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Revised Edition #610Image
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Hymnal: for churches and Sunday-schools of the Augustana Synod #347Image
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Hymns and Tunes: for Public and Private Worship, and Sunday Schools #121Image
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Hymns for the use of the Sabbath School of the Second Reformed Church, Albany N. Y. #106bImage
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Joyful Praise: for Sunday Schools, young people's societies, devotional and revival meetings #207Image
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Light and Life Songs: adapted especially to sunday schools, prayer meetings and other social services #114Image
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Manual of Devotion and Selection of Hymns for ... Girard College for Orphans #d169
Maynard's Sabbath School Echo. 6th ed. of Maynard's Selected Sabbath School Hymns, with an Appendix #d193
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Minnetonka Songs: for Sabbath Schools, compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly #120Image
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New Life: or, Songs and Tunes for Sunday-Schools, Prayer Meetings, and Private Occasions #59Image
New Perfect Praise for Sunday Schools, Singing Schools, Revivals, Conventions #d87
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Ocean Grove Songs #147Image
One Hundred Select Gospel Hymns from Gospel Hymns Consolidated #d55
Our Choice #d155
Our Favorite Hymnal #d272
Our Sabbath Home Praise Book #d127
Our Songs of Faith #d111
Our Treasury of Song, for Use in the Emmanuel Baptist Church #d236
Palmer's Sabbath School Songs: to which is added an extensive collection of standard and well-known Sunday school hymns #61Image
Pearls of Praise #d17
Pearly Gates: a collection of new songs for the Sunday school, prayer meeting, and social circle #54Image
Peerless Praise : a collection of hymns and music for the Sabbath school, with a complete department of elementary instruction in the theory and pract #197Image
Pentecostal Hymns No. 3, a Winnowed Collection for Evangelistic Services #107Image
Perfect Praise #d97
Pilgrim's Hymnal, a Book of Choice Songs for the Home and All the Services of the Churches #d178
Popular Hymns #d192
Popular Hymns Revised #d208
Popular Hymns: revised for the Work and Worship of the Church Sunday School. #d206
Praise, a New Song Book #d121
Praise and Promise" for use in Sunday-schools, prayer meetings, revivals, young people's meetings and on special occasions #140Image
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Praises #d166
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Precious Hymns for Times of Refreshing and Revival #22Image
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Rescue songs: words and music with standard selections #102Image
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Revival Hymns (Rev. ed.) #57Image
Revival Songs. 4th ed. #d225
Revival Songs : a new collection of hymns and spiritual songs for closet and family worship, prayer, conference, revival and protracted meetings #24Image
Sabbath School Bell No. 2: a superior collection of choice tunes, newly arranged and composed, and a large number of excellent hymns written expressly for this work, which are well adapted for... #25Image
Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saings. 25th ed. #d249
Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 24th ed. #d15
Sacred Memories for Occasions of Reverence #d84
Sacred Selections #d139
Sacred Selections for the Church #d406
Sacred Songs for Church and Home #d424
Salvation Army Music #d219
Salvation Songs: for gospel meetings, Endeavor Societies, Epworth Leagues, Baptist Unions, Sunday schools and prayer meetings #183Image
Second Advent Hymn Book #d79
Select Hymns for Christian Worship and General Gospel Service #d445
Select Hymns for the use of the Mission School of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church #d95
Select New and Old Hymns #d206
Select Progressive Spiritual Hymns and Songs #d45
Select Songs #d107
Selected Hymns #d99
Selection of Hymns, for the use of the first M. E. Church, Cape May City #95Image
Seth Parker's Hymnal #d147
Seth Parker's Hymnal. 5th ed. #d140
Sifted Wheat: a collection of songs for Sunday schools, young people's societies, devotional and revival meetings #183Image
Silver Wings #32Image
Sing Hosannas, a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Let Everybody Sing #d214
Social Hymns, Original and Selected #d154
Song-Flowers #d112
Song Garland; or, Singing for Jesus: a new collection of Music and Hymns prepared expressly for Sabbath Schools #93Image
Song Land Melodies #d147
Song Worship for Sunday Schools #53Image
Songland Melodies ... a New Song Book for Revivals #d178
Songs for Service #d216
Songs for the School #d137
Songs of Comfort #d65
Songs of Delight, for the Sunday School #92Image
Songs of Devotion and Praise #d139
Songs of Full Salvation #d171
Songs of Glory : For Sunday Schools, Churches and The Social Circle #69Image
Songs of Glory, No.2: a collection of beautiful songs for Sunday Schools and the Family Circle #52Image
Songs of Grace and Glory: A New and Inspiring Selection of Sacred Songs for Evangelical Use and General Worship #366Image
Songs of Life #d71
Songs of Love for the Bible School #d121
Songs of Mounting Up No. 2 #d132
Songs of Pilgrimage: a hymnal for the churches of Christ (2nd ed.) #1324Image
Songs of Pilgrimage: a hymnal for the churches of Christ (2nd ed.) #1325Image
Songs of Power. Rev. #d179
Songs of Praise and Worship #d46
Songs of Salvation and Service. #d226
Songs of Salvation and Service. Rev. #d223
Songs of Salvation as Used by Crossley and Hunter in Evangelistic Meetings: and adapted for the church, grove, school, choir and home #210Image
Songs of the Blessed Hope #d176
Songs of the Covenant : for the Sabbath School, Prayer Meetings, etc. #57Image
Songs of the Cross #d204
Songs of the Kingdom: a choice collection of songs and hymns for the Sunday school and other social services #152Image
Songs of Triumph: adapted to prayer meetings, camp meetings, and all other seasons of religious worship #131Image
Songs of Victory #128Image
Songs that Touch the Heart. Vol. 4 #d43
Sought-Out Songs for Christian Workers #d124
Sought-Out Songs for Christian Workers #d131
Soul Echoes #d184
Spiritual Songs #d181
Spiritual Songs #d201
Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services #d480
Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School #14Image
Spiritualist Hymnal #d83
Spring Blossoms #d72
Standard Hymns and Gospel Songs. Evangelical Congregational Church ed. #d75
Sun-Shine Songs for the Sunday School #163Image
Sunday School and Revival Songs No.2 #d169
Sunday School Book: containing liturgy and hymns for the Sunday School (Rev. and Enl. Ed.) #162Image
Sweetest Praises #d181
Tears and Triumphs: For Revivals, Sunday Schools & the Home #183Image
Tears and Triumphs No. 3 #33Image
Telling Jesus No. 2 #d109
Temple Chimes #d221
Temple Trio: comprising "On Joyful Wing", "Melodious Sonnets" and "Precious Hymns" #336Image
The A. M. E. Zion Hymnal #d465
The Advent Christian Hymnal #d736
The Advent Christian Hymnal. Rev. #d310
The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book: adapted to the doctirnes and usages of the church (6th ed.) #610Image
The Anniversaary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 #d153
The Baptist Hymn and Praise Book #d423
The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book, for Public Worship #387aImage
The Baptist Praise Book #1047Image
The Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings #d468
The Bible Harp #d225
The Bread of Life Songs #d120
The Brethren Hymnody: with tunes for the sanctuary, Sunday-school, prayer meeting and home circle #249Image
The Brethren's Sunday School Song Book #d121
The Broadman Hymnal #d368
The Canadian Sunday School Harp #d130
The Casket of Sunday School Melodies, Complete. Compiled from Caskets Nos.1 and 2 with Several Additional Pieces #d136
The Century Gospel Songs #d116
The Christian Sunday School Hymnal: a compilation of choice hymns and tunes for Sunday schools #80TextImage
The Church Hymnal ... Seventh-Day Adventist Church #557
The Clariona #d181
The Complete Church Hymnal #d243
The Corona #d106
The Covenant Hymnal, authorized by the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America #d324
The Devotional Hymn and Tune Book: for social and public worship #392Image
The Devotional Hymn Book #d414
The Eclectic Sabbath School Hymn Book #181Image
The Emory Hymnal: a collection of sacred hymns and music for use in public worship, Sunday-schools, social meetings and family worship #143Image
The Eolian Harp #d98
The Evangel #d148
The Garner #d105
The Gem #d131
The Golden Rule #d79
The Gospel Alarm #d136
The Gospel of Joy: prepared especially for gospel meetings, camp meetings, devotional meetings, and Sunday schools #28Image
The Gospel Song Sheaf: for Sunday schools and young peoples meetings, comprising primary songs, intermediate songs, gospel and special songs, and old hymns and tunes #236aImage
The Greatest Hymns #d287
The Harmonic Chimes for Revivals, Praise Meetings, Church Worship ... #d147
The Heart's Offering with Songs New and Old for The Lord's Memorial #27Image
The Highway Hymnal #d256
The Hymnal, a Collection of Gospel Songs and Hymns #d226
The Hymns of "Happy Voices" (without music) #d175
The Jewelled Crown #d108
The King of Glory #d177
The Latter-Day Saints' Psalmody. 3rd ed. #d14
The Little Sower for Sabbath Schools #107Image
The Little Sunbeam #d54
The Message in Song Nos. 1 & 2 #d187
The Mission Hymnal. Enl. ed. #d160
The Most Popular Hymns #102Image
The New Alphabetical Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church No. 2. 35th ed. #d342
The New Christian Harp. 10th ed. #d205
The New Church Hymnal #330
The New Evangel #d212
The New Jubilee Harp, or Christian hymns and songs. a new collection of hymns and tunes for public and social worship. #447
The New Revival Glory #d215
The New Sabbath School Hosanna: enlarged and improved: a choice collection of popular hymns and tunes, original and selected: for the Sunday school and the family circle... #165Image
The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #d180
The Old School Hymnal No. 7. Rev. #d239
The People's Hymn Book #d254
The Pilgrim's Harp #d202
The Pilgrim's Hymnal. #d171
The Praise #d244
The Revival Music Book #d56
The Revivalist: a Collection of Choice Revival Hymns and Tunes #260Image
The Revivalist: Containing One Hundred Choice Revival Hymns, and One Hundred and Twenty-five Choruses: Designed for Use On Revival Occasions. (1st ed) #70Image
The Richard Allen A.M.E. Hymnal, with Responsive Scripture Readings. Rev. #d339
The Sabbath School Gem #d78
The School Hymn and Tune Book #d156
The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) #d656
The Selah Song Book. Word ed. #d331
The Service Song Book #d133
The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1369Image
The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1370Image
The Shining Strand #d37
The Silver Song #d101
The Silver Spray #d102
The Silver Spray: a New and Choice Collection of Popular Sabbath School Music #d128
The Song Book of the Salvation Army #d699
The Song Harvest #d148
The Songs of Zion #d24
The Spiritual Harp #d190
The Star of the East #d149
The Starry Crown of Sunday School Melodies #d81
The Timbrel: a collection of solos, duets and choruses, for Sunday schools #78Image
The Violet: a book of music and hymns, with lessons of instruction designed for Sunday Schools, social meetings, and home circles #31Image
The Way of Life: for the Sunday-school. a valuable collection of songs both new and standard, carefully selected and arranged for this work #164Image
The Wells of Salvation: songs for the Sabbath School #197Image
The Woman's Hymnal: a collection of sacred lyrics set to music and arranged as duets for soprano and alto, (tenor and bass ad libitum.) for the use of The Woman's College of Baltimore #106Image
The World Evangel #d250
Tidings of Glory #d137
Treasury of Song #d235
Triumphant Songs No.3 #156Image
Two Hundred and Fifty-two Familiar Hymns #d162
Universal Songs and Hymns, a complete hymnal #d160
Vestry Chimes: a choice collection of sacred music, adapted to all occasions of social and family worship #20Image
Voices of Victory #173Image
Warrior Songs for the White Cavalry. 2nd ed. #d206
Warrior Songs for the White Cavalry. 3rd ed. #d275
Wheeler's New Songs No.1 #d7
World Revival Hymns #d182
World Wide Church Songs #d158
World-wide Revival Hymns #d203
World Wide Revival Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Meetings #d199
Wreath of Praise #d92
Zion's Delight: for revival meetings, prayer meetings, young people's meetings, and Sunday school #33Image
Zion's Refreshing Showers : a new revival hymn and tune book, containing nearly 300 hymns and tunes principally used by Whitfield, Wesley, Knapp, Nettleton, Finney, Earl, and other evangelists... #16Image
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