Come, Christian Brethren!

Representative Text

1 Christian brethren, ere we part,
Every voice and every heart
Join, and to our Father raise
One last hymn of grateful praise.

2 Though we here should meet no more,
Yet there is a brighter shore;
There released from toil and pain,
Saints with joy shall meet again.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #274

Author: Henry Kirke White

White, Henry Kirke, a gifted English poet who died early in life, was born in Nottingham, England, March 21, 1785. Very early he manifested a remarkable love for books and a decided talent for composition. But his parents were poor, and he was apprenticed in early boyhood to a stocking weaver, from which uncongenial servitude he escaped as soon as he could and began the study of law; but later he was converted and felt called to the ministry. The story of his conversion from deism to Christianity is briefly but beautifully told in the poem titled "The Star of Bethlehem." He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1805 as a servitor; but died October 19, 1806, in the second year of his college course, when only twenty-one years of age. In… Go to person page >

Tune

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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[Christians, brethren, ere we part]


PLEYEL'S HYMN


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Instances

Instances (101 - 200 of 224)

Popular Hymns, revised #305

Portsmouth Sunday School Hymn Book #d25

Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home #d84

Psalms and Hymns for the Worship of God #d116

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (14th stereotype ed.) #71

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S73

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Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #B71

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Revival Hymns #13

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Revival Songs #145

Revival Songs. 4th ed. #d37

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Sacred Poetry #339

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Sacred Poetry #343

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #286

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #324

Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns (American Seamen's Friend Society) #d75

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Song Sermons for General Use and Special Services #165

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #799

Songs for Social and Public Worship. Rev. ed. #d57

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Songs for the Sabbath School and Vestry #S56

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Songs of Devotion for Christian Assocations #121

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Songs of Grace and Glory #156(41)

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Songs of Joy and Gladness with Supplement #280

Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part I #d24

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Songs of Pilgrimage #129

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Songs of Redemption #264

Songs of the Free, and Hymns of Christian Freedom #d15

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Songs of Victory #140

Sunday School Hymn Book #d61

Supplement to the Advent and Sabbath Hymn Book #d11

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Sweet Fields of Eden #111

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The Advent Harp; designed for believers in the speedy coming of Christ #3b

The American Hymn and Tune Book #d88

The American Seaman's Hymn Book #d33

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The American Sunday-School Hymn-Book #437

The Association Hymn Book #d15

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #853

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The Baptist Psalmody #1152

The Book of Praise #d99

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The Book of Worship #462

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The Camp-Meeting Chorister #217

The Centennial Hymnal #d58

The Chapel Hymn Book #d51

The Chapel Hymn Book (4th ed.) #d71

The Chapel Hymn Book. 5th ed. #d69

The Christian Harmony #d50

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The Christian Hymn Book #720

The Christian Hymnal #d99

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The Christian Hymnal #458

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The Christian hymnal #245

The Christian Hymnist #d84

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The Christian Melodist #25

The Christian Psalmist #d99

The Church Hymn Book #d142

The Church Hymn Book #d75

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The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" #1180

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The Congregational Hymn Book #402

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The Cyber Hymnal #11979

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The Disciples' Hymn Book #94

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs #d44

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs, with an Appendix of Choice Hymns #d42

The Good Old Songs #d93

The Good Old Songs #d92

The Gospel Call, Part Two #400

The Gospel Hymnal #d86

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The Harp #853

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The Harp. 2nd ed. #a853

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The Heart and Voice #299f

The Highway to Heaven #d26

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #964

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The Hymn Book of the Free Methodist Church #36

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The Jubilee Harp #725

The Millennial Harp #d69

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The New Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, for Public, Social and Private Worship #521

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The New Jubilee Harp #584

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The New Jubilee Harp #584

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The Portfolio of Sunday School Songs #160

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The Praise Hymnary #69

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The Primitive Baptist Hymnal #261

The Primitive Hymns #d96

The Psalmodist #d28

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The Religious Songster #57

The Sabbath Chimes #d34

The Sabbath School Hymn Book #d39

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The Sabbath School Melodist #124

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #274

The Social Harp #d48

The Social Harp. Rev. #d62

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The Spirit of Praise #16

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The Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship #431

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The Standard Church Hymnal #673

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The Standard Hymnal #16a

The Sunday School Choir and Superintendent's Assistant #d23

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The Sweet Singer of Israel #290

The Tabernacle Chorus #d26

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The Tabernacle Chorus (Trinity ed.) #27

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The Tribute of Praise and Methodist Protestant Hymn Book #449

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The Tribute of Praise #449

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The Tribute of Praise #449

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Exclude 223 pre-1979 instances
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