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James Kosnik, this series compiles the talent of many well-known composers and places their contribution into several bound volumes. Innovative hymn accompaniments for instruments. Parts for melody, harmony, and a descant are provided in the ranges most appropriate for each instrument. Includes transpositions for instruments in the key of C, B-flat, E-flat, and F, plus parts for percussion.
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Although the contents have been selected especially with God's people ages 9—14 in mind, it is believed that this book will appeal to persons of all ages. More than songs for all ages,….
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Sunday School Music 2. Shall We Gather at the River Leavitt An outstanding edition with settings that invigorate the passion of the spirituals. Lambs at the River Choirs with a contemporary taste will enjoy two great hymns at the same time! What, then, of the others? Cyrus Teed with his teachings that the earth and sky exist inside a hollow planet under a mechanical sun.
Arnold Potter who, believing he would ascend into heaven, leapt from a cliff to his death.
The sleepwalking divine Jacobina Mentz Maurer. Mad John Thom the bullet-proof Cornishman. Or the ones who might, in some obscure backwater, be subject to revelations right now?
His town of Murn deserves to appear, on its own terms, on the maps of fictional places. For all the character sketches that make up the book, Shall We Gather at the River is on another level the study of a place where the transcendent and the macabre inhabit the apparently mundane, to those who are attuned to the right frequencies. Central to the story is the Rua River, from which all the tales emanate and conclude. The title of Shall We Gather at the River comes from an old gospel spiritual from the nineteenth century, which in turn was inspired by a passage in the Book of Revelations alluding to a river of life flowing from heaven.
Yet the Rua River is a cruel inversion of this hopeful idea. Murphy gives us succinct but memorable glimpses of the lives it will claim when it rises to flood.
Because they do not wish to rouse the river. His is a mind pushed to extremities by the age and place in which he lives; the restless, ambitious mind grows deformed in such conditions.
"Shall We Gather at the River?" or simply "At the River" are the popular names for the traditional Christian hymn titled "Hanson Place," written by American poet. Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet Gather with the saints at the river. That flows by the throne Ere we reach the shining river, Lay we every .
He lives during the Cold War; the great age of ennui and anxiety, when the West is affluent enough to induce mass terminal boredom but has developed the technology to deliver for the first time the imminent destruction of all humanity. Worse, he lives on a rock at the edge of the Atlantic.
And both the pulpit and the radio lead back to the river.