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Author: Clara McAlister Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The angels came with silent tread Refrain First Line: We'll meet again, where comes no night Lyrics: 1. The angels came with silent tread And gathered round our darling's bed; Unto their shining home above They bore her in their arms of love. Chorus: We'll meet again, where comes no night, We'll meet again, in realms of light; We'll meet our loved among the blest; Farewell, our darling, sweetly rest. 2. Thou, Father, doest all things well, Altho' our hearts with sorrow swell; There's comfort in thy grace alone, Help us to say "Thy will be done." 3. Thy form may sleep beneath the sod, Thy spirit dwells at home with God; He bids us trust and weep no more, For we shall see those gone before. 4. Farewell, we'll meet on yon bright shore, Our sighs and tears shall then be o'er; Farewell, again we sadly say, Until there dawns eternal day. Topics: Funeral Used With Tune: [The angels came with silent tread]

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[The angels came with silent tread]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. L. Byers Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53453 32156 61216 Used With Text: We'll Meet Again

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We'll Meet Again

Author: Clara McAlister Hymnal: Truth in Song #259 (1907) First Line: The angels came with silent tread Refrain First Line: We'll meet again, where comes no night Lyrics: 1. The angels came with silent tread And gathered round our darling's bed; Unto their shining home above They bore her in their arms of love. Chorus: We'll meet again, where comes no night, We'll meet again, in realms of light; We'll meet our loved among the blest; Farewell, our darling, sweetly rest. 2. Thou, Father, doest all things well, Altho' our hearts with sorrow swell; There's comfort in thy grace alone, Help us to say "Thy will be done." 3. Thy form may sleep beneath the sod, Thy spirit dwells at home with God; He bids us trust and weep no more, For we shall see those gone before. 4. Farewell, we'll meet on yon bright shore, Our sighs and tears shall then be o'er; Farewell, again we sadly say, Until there dawns eternal day. Topics: Funeral Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels came with silent tread]

We'll Meet Again

Author: Clara M. Brooks Hymnal: Radiant Joy #65 (1944) First Line: The angels came with silent tread Refrain First Line: We'll meet again where comes no night Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels came with silent tread]

We'll Meet Again

Author: Clara M. Brooks Hymnal: Select Hymns #315 (1911) First Line: The angels came with silent tread Refrain First Line: We'll meet again, where comes no night Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels came with silent tread]

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Arranger of "[The angels came with silent tread]" in Radiant Joy Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org

Clara McAlister Brooks

1882 - 1980 Author of "We'll Meet Again" Birth: Oct. 9, 1882, Parke County, Indiana, USA Death: Mar. 20, 1980, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA Clara McAlister Brooks was one of our early songwriters and four of her pieces are in the current hymnal. From the earliest days of the movement we have had women prominent in all forms of our ministry—missionaries, evangelists, teachers, pastors, and God has honored their sacrificial labors. For that reason we can stand in amazement when here, in the 1970s, such old-line denominations as the Episcopal church are being racked with controversy over whether the ordination of women is permissible. But before we gather Pharisaic robes about ourselves, perhaps we need to look candidly at the way in which we, too, succumbed to some of the cultural and prejudicial patterns of later decades! --www.whwomenclergy.org/articles/

A. L. Byers

1869 - 1952 Composer of "[The angels came with silent tread]" in Truth in Song Andrew Linnaeus Byers was born on August 26, 1869 in Albany, Illinois. Byers’ mother was song writer Nancy Byers. In 1890 he became involved with Daniel Warner & Barney Warren in evangelistic work; later joined the Gospel Trumpet publishing company as music editor for a year. He left that work because of health problems and worked as an evangelist and pastor in Idaho & Oregon before taking a pastorate in Sacramento, California, in 1934. He died on November 9, 1952 in Sacramento, California. His works include: Birth of a Reformation: The Life and Labors of D. S. Warner, 1922 NN, Hymnary.