Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
- Authors
- Philip P. Bliss
- Year
- 1871
- Example Text
- Brightly beams our Father's mercy...Let the lower lights be burning
- Popularity
- 16%
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- Scripture References
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- Psalm 108:4
- Matthew 5:14-16; 5:18
- Luke 12:35; 19:10
- Acts 4:12
- Philippians 2:15-16
- Lyrics
1 Brightly beams our Father’s mercy
From His lighthouse evermore;
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
Refrain:
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.
2 Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore. [Refrain]
3 Trim your feeble lamp, my brother!
Some poor seaman, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost. [Refrain]
Source:African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #267
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