Advent Hymnals

480. LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING

Christ in Song,

1.
Brightly beams our Father's mercy,
From His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.

Chorus:
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.  [Chorus]

3.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother
Some poor sailor tempest tost,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.  [Chorus]

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  Title	Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
  Key	B♭ Major
  Titles	Let the lower lights be burning!
  First Line	Brightly beams our Father’s mercy
  Author	P. P. Bliss
  Year	1908
  Composer	P. P. Bliss
  Hymnal	-
  Tune	Brightly beams our Father’s mercy
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  Chorus Type
  Subjects	Living His Life: Call to Activity; Living His Life: Light of the World
  Texts	Matthew 5:16
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