HIMknowledgey Ministry - Revive Us Again

God has used specifically talented people to create everything in Revive Us Again. Douglas Alvin Snow is the compiler that God has used to bring Revive Us Again into print. The Lord willing, the whole story of the making of Revive Us Again will be written and will include all the miraculous happenings in both the compiling and printing of this chronological anthology of American-gospel hymnody.

Snow was born and reared in Hallstead, Pennsylvania which is located in the tiny triangle that he calls the cradle of the American Gospel-Song, which runs from Binghamton, New York southeast to Montrose, Pennsylvania and then west to Rome, Pennsylvania. In 1947, at age seven, Snow was preached into the kingdom of God through a hell-fire and brimstone evangelistic message by Dr. Bill Rice Sr. at the First Baptist Church in Hallstead. Snow's baptism took place in the Susquehanna River where his boyhood home overlooks the water as it flows north into New York State.

After graduation from Blue Ridge High School in 1958, Snow attended Baptist Bible Seminary in Johnson City, New York. In 1970, He became interested in his family genealogy and traced his roots back through the Mayflower Company and found his line went through John Alden and Priscilla Mullins Alden. This research information from the past became useful after meeting Dr. Alfred B. Smith in 1979, whom Snow considers to be his mentor. Dr. Smith directed Snow to seven famous, local hymnwriters: P. P. Bliss, James McGranahan, D. B. Towner, Dr. W. S. Martin, Mrs. C. D. Martin, Rev. J. B. Sumner, and John R. Clements. From then on, Snow began discovering famous hymns by these writers; Bliss and It Is Well With My Soul, McGranahan and My Redeemer, Towner and Trust and Obey, Dr. Martin and God Will Take Care of You, Mrs. Martin and His Eye Is On The Sparrow, Sumner and A Child Of The King, and Clements and No Night There. These hymns and twenty-six others were compiled into an eighty-page book, entitled, The Gospel Message in Song to document the findings in 2002. A letter from Kenneth W. Osbeck in April of 2001, who had perused the eighty-page book, and advised me that was enough material in which to develop a Sunday-school, quarterly-book. Now, Revive Us Again is being divided into twenty-six lessons, allowing it to be used as a textbook.