Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As flows the rapid river (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: As flows the rapid river

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: S Smith

Composer:

Meter: 7s and 6s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1088

Page Number: 644, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

As flows the rapid river,

With channel broad and free,

Its waters rippling ever,

And hast'ning 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 wint'ry 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 for ever

The ruin of thy soul.