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Brethren, We Have Met Again
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RECORDING INFO: Brethren, We Have Met Again
Spangler, George. Southern Journey. Vol. 4: Brethren, We Meet Again, Rounder 1704, CD (1997), trk# 18 [1959/09/07]
Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky- Brethren We Have Met Again
Blessed Hope Services: Sermons and singing from Blessed Hope Old Regular Baptist church, Liberty, Kentucky http://www.oldregular.com/
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SOURCES: Blessed Hope Services: Sermons and singing from Blessed Hope Old Regular Baptist church, Liberty, Kentucky
NOTES: "Brethren, We Have Met Again" is a favorite old-time hymn still sung at Baptist conventions as a greeting or parting hymn.
You can listen on-line at Blessed Hope Services: Sermons and singing from Blessed Hope Old Regular Baptist church, Liberty, Kentucky http://www.oldregular.com/
History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, Volume 2 By Moses Thurston Runnels:
Free Will Baptist denomination. While there, two years, 1809-11, he preached frequently in this town, near his former home, especially during a revival, which culminated from his last sermons, before moving away. On one of these occasions, having arrived from N. D., he proceeded up the aisle, singing, with singular effect, a hymn which he had composed on the way, a large audience being in readiness for him. First lines:
Dear brethren, we have met again,
To preach and pray and sing.
Second stanza:
Since I was here, how have you done?
How have you walked or have you run?
Or like the eagle flew.
Or have you fell in Despond's slough?
Then look to Him who sees you now,
To frame your minds anew.
There were four six-line stanzas. They were first procured by Elias Smith, who had them printed, and they afterwards appeared, with alterations, in several editions of the Free Will Baptist Conference Hymn-Book. Another hymn of his, entitled " The Old Hemlock." devoutly celebrates a tree which shielded (prevented) another from falling on him, when a little boy, being with his father, who was felling trees in the woods.
The Life, Experience, and Travels of John Colby, Preacher of the Gospel by John Colby 1854:
Wednesday, July 8, I left Pittsfield, and shaped my course for Montville, Me. I had to ride the principal. part of the way through the storm ; but, through the mercy of God, I arrived at the place Sabbath morning, about the time the people were gathering to meeting. I preached but once on the road from Pittsfield to Montville, and that was in Litchfield, Me. The people in Montville had about given me up, as I did not get into town on Saturday night, and concluded I should disappoint them. But all their doubts were dissipated when they saw me approaching the large barn where they were assembled. As I entered the assembly, I sang the following hymn:
Brethren, we have met again;
Let us join to pray and sing;
We're alive, and Jesus reigns,
Praise him in the highest strains
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