My soul seemed to take new life from the celestial outlook. Brightest of all were the throne, the heavenly river, and the gathering of the saints.
The imagery of the Apocalypse took the form of a tableau. Visions of the future passed before me with startling vividness. I was almost incapable of bodily exertion, and my imagination began to take to itself wins. "One afternoon in July, 1864, when I was pastor at Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, the weather was oppressively hot, and I was lying on a lounge in a state of physical exhaustion. So he did not stay on his couch long, but soon arose and was busy writing. While thinking about all the people who were dying, he began to think of the great reunion at the river of life. This is why the 38-year old preacher was near exhaustion when he lay down on the couch of his Brooklyn home one hot day in July.
When Lowry was not busy visiting those in his congregation who were sick, he was burying others who had died. That summer there was an epidemic sweeping New York City, and people were dying all over. In 1864 Lowry was minister at the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn. The text was written and the tune (Hanson Place) was composed both by Robert Lowry (1826-1899). INTRO.: A hymn that describes our hope of being at and seeing that pure river of water of life in the heavenly New Jerusalem is "Shall We Gather At The River?" (#414 in Sacred Selections For The Church). "He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God…" (Rev.
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