191) What A Gathering (Fanny Crosby 1887) 2 Thessalonians 2:1 (CH:784) Forgotten Hymns

Forgotten Hymns What A Gathering Lyrics: Fanny Crosby (1887) Music: Ira David Sankey Cyber Hymnal No: 784 Bible Ref: 2 Thessalonians 5:1 (KJV) "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, L Y R I C S On that bright and gold­en morn­ing, When the Son of Man shall come, And the ra­di­ance of His glo­ry we shall see; When from ev­ery clime and na­tion He shall call His peo­ple home, What a ga­ther­ing of the ran­somed that will be! Refrain What a ga­ther­ing, what a ga­ther­ing, What a ga­ther­ing of the ran­somed In the sum­mer land of love! What a ga­ther­ing, what a ga­ther­ing, Of the ran­somed in that hap­py home above. When the blest, who sleep in Je­sus, At His bid­ding shall arise From the si­lence of the grave, and from the sea, And with bo­dies all ce­les­ti­al They shall meet Him in the skies, What a ga­ther­ing and re­joic­ing there will be! Refrain When our eyes be­hold the ci­ty, With its ma­ny man­sions bright, And its riv­er, calm and rest­ful, flow­ing free; When the friends that death hath part­ed Shall in bliss again unite, What a ga­ther­ing and a greet­ing there will be! Refrain O the King is sure­ly com­ing, And the time is draw­ing nigh, When the bless­èd day of pro­mise we shall see; Then the chang­ing in a mo­ment, In the twink­ling of an eye, And for­ev­er in His pre­sence we shall be. Refrain B I O G R A P H Y O F F A N N Y C R O S B Y Fanny was the daugh­ter of John and Mer­cy Cros­by, and wife of or­gan­ist Al­ex­an­der Van Al­styne, who like her, was blind. Though blind­ed by an in­com­pe­tent doc­tor at six weeks of age, she wrote ov­er 8,000 hymns. About her blind­ness, Fan­ny said: It seemed in­tend­ed by the bless­ed pro­vi­dence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dis­pen­sa­tion. If per­fect earth­ly sight were of­fered me to­mor­row I would not ac­cept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been dis­trac­ted by the beau­ti­ful and in­ter­est­ing things ab­out me. On her 85th birth­day, Am­eri­can pre­si­dent Gro­ver Cleve­land wrote to Fan­ny: My dear friend: It is more than fif­ty years ago that our ac­quaint­ance and friend­ship be­gan; and ev­er since that time I have watched your con­tin­uous and in­ter­es­ted la­bor in up­lift­ing hu­man­ity, and point­ing out the way to an ap­pre­ci­ation of God’s good­ness and mer­cy. I am, there­fore, ex­ceed­ing­ly gra­ti­fied to learn that your eigh­ty-fifth birth­day is to be ce­le­brat­ed with a dem­on­stra­tion of this re­mem­brance. As one proud to call you an old friend, I de­sire to be ear­ly in con­gra­tu­lat­ing you on your long life of use­ful­ness, and wish­ing you in the years yet to be add­ed to you, the peace and com­fort born of the love of God. (From Cyber Hymnal) The Lord Jesus laid a burden on my heart to help in reviving the unheard and forgotten hymns of our dear Fanny Crosby, since there are only around 27 of her hymns which are commonly sung and in use presently. Contemporary tunes have been used wherever needed, generated by AI, so that the younger generation will be encouraged to learn and sing these timeless and Biblically based hymns. May the name of the Lord Jesus Christ continue to be Worshiped, Praised, Exalted & Lifted up as we all await His soon return to this earth. Philippians 2:10,11 (KJV) "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things in the earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father". Acts 16:31 (KJV) "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house". As the United States of America celebrate their 250th year of Independence, It's our prayer that America and the World will not only revive and sing the forgotten hymns of their Un'sung' hero: FANNY CROSBY", but turn back to the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land". 2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) For those of us who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour, let us lay hold of God's promises, and live Godly lives as we await Christ's coming: Isaiah 64:4 (KJV) "For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he had prepared for him that waiteth for him". Matthew 13:16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear". (KJV)