I happened upon a video of the song "Yonder Come My Jesus" and have since found two more renditions of that song [with slightly different lyrics) in two other videos published by the same poster. I also found another rendition of this song [with similar lyrics, but with a slightly different tune, and a more pronounced "surge style" that was in a video that was posted by someone else.

The only other mention of "Yonder come[s] my Jesus" that I have found online to date is in Howard W. Odum's 1909 university dissertation "Religious Folk-Songs Of The Southern Negroes" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39078/39078-h/39078-h.htm. That line "Oh yonder comes my Jesus, I know him by his shinin'" is given as line #13 in an 19 line excerpt of a "negro" religious song as part of a description about how those songs included concrete descriptions of Jesus. [I put quotation marks around that spelling "negro" because it's considered offensive now to spell that referent that way.]

This post on my Pancocojams cultural blog includes transcriptions of three of those examples and the videos those examples are from: http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/02/yonder-come-my-jesus-sung-to-tune.html "Yonder Come My Jesus" (sung to the tune "Michael Row The Boat Ashore")

I'll add the lyrics to one of those renditions in this thread.

The first video that I featured begins with a rendition of the religious song "Who Is Going Down In The Grave With Me". That song was also unfamiliar to me, but I have since found a sound file of that song which was recorded by Rev. Julius Cheeks. I also have found a sound file of that song as sung by The Mighty Clouds Of Joy. That song is composed of the words:
Who is going down in the grave with me [3x]
When I die.

Jesus is going down in the grave with me [3x]
When I die

etc.   

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Although I found recordings of "Who Is Going Down In The Grave With Me", I've not found any recordings of "Yonder Comes My Jesus". I wonder if anyone has ever recorded that song.

It seems amazing that a song which has the same tune & has a similar pattern as "Michael Row The Boat Ashore" isn't better known.

Are either of these religious songs familiar to anyone here?