Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As flows the rapid river (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: As flows the rapid river

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

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Hymn Number: 586

Page Number: 304, 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 every waning,
As haste the sun away,
As stormy winds, complaining,
Bring on the wintery day,
So fast the night comes o'er us-
The darkness of the grave-
And death is just before us-
God takes the life he gave.