Thanks
Philip and Nana,
It
is sad but true that we all have to go one day when our time on earth is ended.
I have lost a wonderful husband, I am now trying to pick up the pieces and go
on with life, our daughters and grand children do make life worth living. The
number of messages from our batch mates makes one feel the closeness of our
friends even though we have not met for years but the bonding during those hard
years in Med School still holds on. A big Thank You to all those who sent me
messages , sorry I have not been able to send them individual messages, but
they have been greatly appreciated.
Angela
Wijetunga
1960 medical batch Colombo <1960batch@gmail.com>
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Hello Angela, Thanks for the email. I will post it on our Batch Blog.
Here is some music I am sending you to get over your bereavement. Hope it helps.
Please click on the web-link below with your speakers on. The story of the lyrics is appended below.
Story of the hymn
Mr. Webster, like many musicians, was
of an exceedingly nervous and sensitive nature, and subject to periods
of depression, in which he looked upon the dark side of all things in life.
I had learned his peculiarities so well that on meeting him I could tell
at a glance if he was melancholy, and had found that I could rouse him up by
giving him a new song to work on.
He came into my place of business [in
Elkhorn, Wisconsin], walked down to the stove, and turned his back on me without
speaking. I was at my desk. Turning to him, I said, “Webster, what is the
matter now?” “It’s no matter,” he replied, “it will be all right by and by.”
The idea of the hymn came me like a flash of sunlight, and I replied, “The
Sweet By and By! Why would not that make a good hymn?” “Maybe it would,” he
said indifferently. Turning to my desk I penned the words of the hymn as
fast as I could write. I handed the words to Webster. As he read his eyes kindled,
and stepping to the desk he began writing the notes. Taking his violin,
he played the melody and then jotted down the notes of the chorus. It was
not over thirty minutes from the time I took my pen to write the words before
two friends with Webster and myself were singing the hymn.
Sanford Fillmore Bennett (1836-1898)
This song was sung in the Academy Award
winning movie Sergeant York (1941).
The 1907 Spanish Latter-day Saint hymnal contained a similar song, set to the same tune and titled "Hay un mundo feliz más allá", that was copied with permission from the American Tract Society's Himnos evangélicos.[3][4] [7 … It was titled "Despedida" until the 1992 hymnal, which changed the title to match the first line of the song, "Placentero nos es trabajar".[6][8]
There’s
a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
Refrain
In
the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
We
shall sing on that beautiful shore
The melodious songs of the blessed;
And our spirits shall sorrow no more,
Not a sigh for the blessing of rest.
Refrain
To
our bountiful Father above,
We will offer our tribute of praise
For the glorious gift of His love
And the blessings that hallow our days.
Refrain
Philip G V
