Meet Me Over There

A little child was dying

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [A little child was dying]
Published in 5 hymnals

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Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 A lit­tle child was dy­ing,
And called her fa­ther near;
And, on His arm re­clin­ing,
She whis­pered in his ear:

Refrain:
"I’m go­ing home to glo­ry,
A gold­en crown to wear;
O meet me, meet me,
Meet me ov­er there!"

2 The an­gels came and took her,
The an­gels God had sent;
They bore her up to Heav­en,
She whis­pered as she went: [Refrain]

3 The fa­ther was no Christ­ian,
His sins were un­for­giv’n;
He could not, as she begged him,
Re­join her up in Heav’n. [Refrain]

4 He gave his heart to Je­sus,
Who took its stains a­way,
And now in Christ be­liev­ing,
The fa­ther, too, can say: [Refrain]

5 That voice is still ap­peal­ing,
"O meet me ov­er there!"
To us it is a sum­mons
For Heav­en to pre­pare. [Refrain]

6 Soon we shall pass life’s por­tals,
Soon we shall fade and die;
In our de­part­ing mo­ments
May we ex­ult­ant cry: [Refrain]


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16477

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: A little child was dying
Title: Meet Me Over There
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I'm going home to glory
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #16477
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The Cyber Hymnal #16477

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