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452. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

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-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost. (Chorus)

Text Information
First Line: Brightly beams our Father's mercy
Title: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Author: Philip P. Bliss
Refrain First Line: Let the lower lights be burning
Language: English
Publication Date: 1980
Scripture:
Topic: Admonition; Soul Winning
Tune Information
Name: [Brightly beams our Father's mercy]
Composer: Philip P. Bliss
Key: A♭ Major



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