He Is Coming By and By

Although back into His heaven Jesus passed from earth away

Author: Johnson Oatman (1908)
Tune: [Although back into His heaven Jesus passed from earth away]
Published in 3 hymnals

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Representative Text

1. Altho’ back in­to His hea­ven
Jesus passed from earth away
When He end­ed here His life of toil and pain,
Yet with all His ho­ly angels
At the break­ing of the day,
He is com­ing once again to reign.

Refrain

Don’t you know He is com­ing,
He is com­ing, He is com­ing?
Don’t you know He is com­ing once again?
With His saints and His an­gels
He is com­ing by and by,
He is com­ing once again to reign.

2. Once He came among the low­ly
As the Babe of Beth­le­hem,
When the an­gels sang so sweet­ly o’er the plain,
And once more up­on this foot­stool
O’er the seed of Ab­ra­ham,
Christ is com­ing once again to reign.

Refrain

3. Of His rul­ing at His com­ing
There will ne­ver be an end,
For His king­dom will for­ev­er­more remain;
O make rea­dy to be with Him
When He shall at last des­cend,
For He’s com­ing once again to reign.

Refrain

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #17085

Author: Johnson Oatman

Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Although back into His heaven Jesus passed from earth away
Title: He Is Coming By and By
Author: Johnson Oatman (1908)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Don't you know He is coming
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #17085
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