Gladly Meeting Kindly Greeting
Author: Evan Stephens
Composer: Varies by tune (see below)
Languages (21)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Czech: Radost dejte
- Danish: Glad til mode
- Dutch: Blij ontmoeten, vriend’lijk groeten
- English: Gladly Meeting Kindly Greeting
- Finnish: Onnellinen päivä
- French: Réunion
- German: Freude spendet, Güte sendet
- Hawaiian: Hui Hauoli Pu Mai
- Icelandic: Góður fundur, gleðifundur
- Italian: Ci riuniamo felicemente
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Maori: Ata Huihui Mai
- Norwegian: Glade møtes, alle hilses
- Portuguese: Bem contentes nos Reunimos
- Samoan: Fiafia Ua Feiloai
- Spanish: Hoy Gozosos Nos Reunimos
- Swedish: Glada vi varandra hälsar
- Tahitian: Farereiraa Oaoa Ra
- Tongan: Fetaulaki Fiefia
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Most common tunes for “Gladly Meeting Kindly Greeting”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “Gladly Meeting Kindly Greeting” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1880 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Children’s Primary Tune Book (1880), p. 1a.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Gladly meeting, kindly greeting, On this precious meeting day; Idle thoughts are all forsaken, Ev’ry seat is quietly taken; Let each heart to God awaken, While we sing and pray.
2. Gladly meeting, kindly greeting, As each meeting shall return; May our minds by study brighten, May our aspirations brighten, And may grace our souls enlighten, While we strive to learn.
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