Let the Lower Lights be Burning

Text: Philip P. Bliss

Copyright: Public Domain

Main subject: Light

Scripture: Philippians 2:15; Luke 12:35

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               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 struggling, fainting 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.
               3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
                  Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
                  Trying now to make the harbor,
                  In the darkness may be lost.