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[We are waiting by the river]
Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 34555 43555 55543 Used With Text: Waiting By the River
[We are waiting by the river]
We Are Waiting
Author: Grace Glenn Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: We are waiting by the river Refrain First Line: We are waiting by the river Lyrics: 1 We are waiting by the river,
Strong and weak, and young and old,
Till the boatman comes to bear us
To the far-off streets of gold.
Chorus:
We are waiting by the river,
we are waiting, you and I;
One by one our friends are crossing,
We shall join them by and by.
2 We are waiting by the river,
And we may not know how near
Are our footsteps, glad or weary,
To its waters still and clear. [Chorus]
3 We are waiting by the river,
And at most 't will not be long
Till we cross the silent waters,
Till we hear the angels' song. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [We are waiting by the river]
We Are Waiting
Oh, I see Thee, oh, I know Thee
Author: Palmer Hartsough Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Oh, I love to go to Jesus Used With Tune: [Oh, I love to go to Jesus]
Oh, I see Thee, oh, I know Thee
We Are Waiting
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Songs of Free Grace #41 (1883) First Line: We are waiting by the river Refrain First Line: We are waiting by the river Lyrics: 1 We are waiting by the river,
Strong and weak, and young and old,
Till the boatman comes to bear us
To the far-off streets of gold.
Chorus:
We are waiting by the river,
we are waiting, you and I;
One by one our friends are crossing,
We shall join them by and by.
2 We are waiting by the river,
And we may not know how near
Are our footsteps, glad or weary,
To its waters still and clear. [Chorus]
3 We are waiting by the river,
And at most 't will not be long
Till we cross the silent waters,
Till we hear the angels' song. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [We are waiting by the river]
We Are Waiting
We Are Waiting
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: Joy and Gladness #15 (1880) First Line: We are waiting by the river Refrain First Line: We are waiting by the river Languages: English Tune Title: [We are waiting by the river]
We Are Waiting
We Are Waiting
Author: Grace Glenn Hymnal: The New Gospel Song Book #129 (1914) First Line: We are waiting by the river Refrain First Line: We are waiting by the river Topics: Funeral Languages: English Tune Title: [We are waiting by the river]
We Are Waiting
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Composer of "[We are waiting by the river]" in Songs of Free Grace James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
Palmer Hartsough
1844 - 1932 Author of "Oh, I see Thee, oh, I know Thee" in The Praise Hymnal Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI.
John Perry
Palmer Hartsough
Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
1843 - 1943 Person Name: Grace Glenn Author of "We Are Waiting" in Choice Gospel Hymns Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace.
Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018)
Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
