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Edit URL Notes CRI Resource: “All Saints Sunday” – Introduction and Order and A Service of Worship All Saints Sunday A Service of Worship Robin Stephenson-Bratcher and Dennis Bratcher Reformed Worship Resource: “All Saints, All Times, All Places: Remembering heroes of the faith All Saints, All Times, All Places: Remembering heroes of the faith by Phyllis Wezeman Issue #64 The Communion of Saints The Communion of the Saints Acknowledging those who have run the race before us. John E. Colwell, excerpted from The Rhythm of Doctrine Christian Heroes  This web site exists because far too few Christians know of their true heritage. They know very little about the men and women of faith who were obedient to the call of God. These men and women are heroes, Christian heroes, who laid down their lives (often literally) and gave us the rich Christian heritage that we have today. Glimpses of Christian History Glimpses of Christian History is a leading site for the history of the Christian religion and church history through the centuries, including Jesus Christ and his apostles, early Christianity, Christian women, famous sayings, and useful books. We also issue the colorful and factual Glimpses. Crossmap Christian Dictionary Crossmap Dictionary is a one of a kind Christian Dictionary. We have compiled entries from 4 leading Christian dictionaries: the ATS Bible Dictionary, Easton's Bible Dictionary, King James Dictionary, and Smith's Bible Dictionary. We have consolidated similiar entries from the different dictionaries so that browsing one topic will return information from all our sources. We hope you enjoy this resource. Bible Gateway Welcome to BibleGateway.com, a free service for reading and researching Scripture online--all in the language or translation of your choice! We provide advanced tools you can use to search the Bible by keywords or verse, as well as other tools to enhance your study of the Bible. Cyberhymnal: For All the Saints “That they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Revelation 14:13 A Mighty Fortress is our God This song has been called “the great­est hymn of the great­est man of the great­est per­i­od of Ger­man his­to­ry” and the “Bat­tle Hymn of the Ref­or­ma­tion.” “God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present Help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 Shall We Gather at the River “A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” Revelation 22:1-2 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…My imag­in­a­tion be­gan to take it­self wings. Vi­sions of the fu­ture passed be­fore me with start­ling vi­vid­ness. The im­ag­ery of the apoc­a­lypse took the form of a ta­bleau. Bright­est of all were the throne, the heav­en­ly ri­ver, and the ga­ther­ing of the saints…I be­gan to won­der why the hymn writ­ers had said so much about the “riv­er of death” and so lit­tle about the “pure wa­ter of life, clear as crys­tal, pro­ceed­ing out of the throne of God and the Lamb.” As I mused, the words be­gan to con­struct them­selves. They came first as a quest­ion of Christ­ian in­quiry, “Shall we ga­ther?” Then they broke in chor­us, “Yes, we’ll ga­ther.” On this quest­ion and an­swer the hymn de­vel­oped it­self. The mu­sic came with the hymn. Part of this hymn was sung in the Acad­e­my Award win­ning mo­vie, Trip to Boun­ti­ful (1985). It was al­so sung at the fun­er­al of Amer­i­can Su­preme Court Jus­tice Will­iam O. Doug­las.