511. Let There Be Light, Lord God of Hosts

Text Information
First Line: Let there be light, Lord God of hosts
Title: Let There Be Light, Lord God of Hosts
Author: William M. Vories (1908, alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Topic: World Peace
Tune Information
Name: ELTON
Composer: Lowell Mason (1854)
Meter: LM
Key: A Major
Source: The Hallelujah, 1854


Text Information:

American layman William Vories went to Japan under YMCA auspices, and founded a very successful mission. This hymn was written in 1908 in response to the increasing threat of German militarism


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