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[Shall we meet beyond the river]

Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 34532 31566 51232 Used With Text: Shall We Meet?

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Shall We Meet?

Author: H. L. Hastings Appears in 469 hymnals First Line: Shall we meet beyond the river Used With Tune: [Shall we meet beyond the river]
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Ja, gewiß! Wir seh'n uns wieder

Author: E. Gebhardt, geb. 1832 Appears in 20 hymnals First Line: Seh'n wir uns wohl einmal wieder Used With Tune: [Seh'n wir uns wohl einmal wieder]

Shall We Meet Up Yonder

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Shall we meet again up yonder Used With Tune: [Shall we meet again up yonder]

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Shall We Meet?

Author: H. L. Hastings Hymnal: The Jewelled Crown #75 (1891) First Line: Shall we meet beyond the river Languages: English Tune Title: [Shall we meet beyond the river]
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Shall we meet, shall we meet

Hymnal: The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) (2nd ed) #575a (1926) First Line: Shall we meet beyond the river Languages: English Tune Title: [Shall we meet beyond the river]

Shall We Meet Up Yonder

Hymnal: Hymns of Zion #263 (1958) First Line: Shall we meet again up yonder Languages: English Tune Title: [Shall we meet again up yonder]

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Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[Shall we meet beyond the river]" in The Jewelled Crown Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

Ernst Gebhardt

1832 - 1899 Person Name: E. Gebhardt, geb. 1832 Author of "Ja, gewiß! Wir seh'n uns wieder" in Gesangbuch der Bischöflichen Methodisten-Kirche

H. L. Hastings

1831 - 1899 Author of "Shall We Meet?" in The Jewelled Crown Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
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