![]() ![]() ![]() This was due toĬivil War deaths Infant mortality (1 in four died before 5th birthday) Women's death at childbirth Lack of antibiotics, insulin, modern medical care Lack of healthy Nutrition and Public Sanitation, and Poor Water Quality. United States mortality in 1864 when Robert Lowry wrote his Shall We Gather at the River? gospel song was 44 years of age. My actual calling and validation from God to His ministry was from funerals.īefore 1900 the Second Coming of Jesus and the immanency of physical death was a primary concern in Christian Gospel Music and pulpit preaching. Consistently, I have reassured and comforted grieving people with the promises of the Bible. Several days this past week I've awakened in the early morning hours to the music of Buddy Greene singing, "Shall We Gather At The River?" I've lived most of my 43 years of ministry in the shadow of death.
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