Worship and Service Hymnal ‎#438

438. 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.

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

Text Information

• First Line: Brightly beams our Father's mercy
• Title: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
• Author: Philip P. Bliss, 1838-1876
• Refrain First Line: Let the lower lights be burning!
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1957
• Topic: Soul Winning; The Christian Way of Life: Christian Missions

Tune Information

• Name: [Brightly beams our Father's mercy]
• Composer: Philip P. Bliss, 1838-1876
• Key: B♭ Major