Show OA A 3 t e eBY BY i The Sweet By and andA By ByA A hymn is born of a casual remark Like many another temperamental artist Composer Composer Com poser Joseph Webster had his 0 oft off days das So when Ito lio sauntered Into the office of Dr Sanford Den Ben Uennett Bennett nett where he be usually hung bung his hia hat and violin the doctor knew the musician was In the dumps the trouble now Bennett Dennett asked Web Web- Mer eter who had his hla back to the tho physician and the stove Oh nothing came the dejected reply Everything Everything Everything Every thing will be all right by and by The doctor turned back to his desk us where hero he lie wrote prescriptions as a n profession and verse verso as asa asa asa a hobby By Dy and by he ho mused the tho sweet ee by and by He paused looked up at Webster then reached for writing paper Joseph Philbrick Webster was an out and out musician In the East where he was born in 1819 ho ha had been an active member of the Handel and Haydn Society and composer of popular There's Theres a land that u is fairer than day dau And by bU faith we can see ce it U ajar alar Nor for the tile Father waits walt over the way To prepare us tel a dwelling place thus there We IVe shall t tiny sing on that beautiful shore The melodious tongs songs 0 o of the tho blest And our spirits shall hall sorrow orrow no more Not a II sign sigh for lor the blessing ol of rest songs Bongs In his early thirties he migrated to nud and in 1857 settled in Elkhorn WIs When the tho erse verse writing physician Sanford Fl Dennett Bennett moved to the same samo town In 1861 the two struck up a partnership In fn the production of sheet music 1 After six years Dennett had hod learned Webster like a IL song lOng book He lie had soon learned that the best hest prescription for or his Ills partners s spells of or melancholia was a batch of ot verses verse to be net eel to music But nut on that Autum day in 1867 the doctor had no remedy in stock Dut But Websters Webster's casual remark had given him a theme themo not for or another of ot their popular songs but for a church hymn While the tho physician wrote hastily at nt hi his desk two townsmen joined Webster at the stove sto In a afew afew few w minutes minutes' Bennett Dennett handed Webster three verses and a chorus In less time than It had bad taken the doctor to write tho the words the COlli composer poser had bad the music He lie gave the tho melody a few ew rounds on his hla violin and the tho four men sang for or the first time V To our bountiful rather Father above Ire We will tolU offer of the tribute t of 0 praise For the hc glorious gift t of Ills love loic And the blessings that hallow out our dall days In tilt the sweet by and by We shall hall meet on that beautiful shore hare In the tile sweet by and by bU We shelf shall meet on that beautiful shore shoie |