Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As flows the rapid river (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: As flows the rapid river

Topic: The New Life/Aspirations

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: Webb

Meter: 7s and 6s double

Tune: Webb (Stop)

Hymn Number: 610

Page Number: 223, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

As flows the rapid river,

With channel broad and free,

Its waters rippling ever,

And hastening to the sea;

So life is onward flowing,

And days of offered peace,

And man is swiftly going

Where calls of mercy cease.



As moons are ever waning,

As hastes the sun away,

As stormy winds, complaining,

Bring on the wintry day;

So fast the night comes o'er us-

The darkness of the grave;

The death is just before us;

God takes the life he gave.



Say, hath thy heart its treasure

Laid up in worlds above?

And is it all thy pleasure

Thy God to praise and love?

Beware lest death's dark river

Its billows o'er thee roll,

And thou lament forever

The ruin of thy soul.