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Robert Lowry, quoted in "Robert Lowry: Baptist Preacher and Hymn Writer" by J.H.Hall Although he considered preaching as his principal vocation, Lowry continued to write hymns and compose music. In 1864, while at Hanson Place, he wrote and composed what became perhaps his best-known hymn, " Shall We Gather at the River ". He wrote this during a heatwave which accompanied an epidemic in the ...
Rev. Robert Lowry, D.D., died at his residence in Plainfield, N.J., November 25, 1899. Dead, yet he lives and his sermons in gospel song are still heard and are doing good. Dr. Lowry was a great and good man, and his life, well spent, is highly worthy of a place among the world's greatest gospel song and hymn writers.
Lowry, Robert, 1826-1899. Birth Year: 1826. Death Year: 1899. Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1826. His fondness for music was exhibited in his earliest years. As a child he amused himself with the various musical instruments that came into his hands. At the age of seventeen he joined the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia ...
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Robert Lowry was the designated editor. In that book, the initials “R.L.” appear above the music where the composer is credited, but the space for the author of the text is blank. However, “Shall We Gather at the River” (number 110 in Bright Jewels ), which was unquestionably written entirely by Lowry, is attributed in the same way.
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The hymn “Shall we gather at the river” was written one afternoon in July, 1864, when was pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. The weather was oppressively hot, and the author was lying on a lounge in a state of physical exhaustion. He was almost incapable of bodily exertion, and his imagination began to take itself wings.
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PLAINFIELD is a simple, pentatonic melody. It was written by Robert Lowry in 1876 for this text, with which it is inseparably paired. The name of the tune comes from the town where Lowry was probably living when he wrote it. Repeated notes and motifs and a narrow range of a fifth make this tune a very easy one for congregational singing. When ...
