Many of the popular songs we know and love have a special story behind them. That being said, “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” - which was written by Jeremiah Rankin - was simply composed so his church choir could have something to sing when they parted each week. Rankin was the minister for the First Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. and said this about the hymn, “Written…as a Christian goodbye, it was called forth by no person or occasion, but was deliberately composed as a Christi