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Keep your light aglow for Jesus

Author: Clara McAlister Brooks Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Hold your little torch on high

[Hold your little torch on high]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: A. L. Byers Used With Text: Hold Your Little Torch on High

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Hold Your Little Torch on High

Author: Clara M. Brooks Hymnal: Songs of Grace and Glory #359 (1918) Refrain First Line: Keep your light aglow for Jesus Lyrics: 1 Hold your little torch on high, Ever keep it burning bright; Souls in sin and darkness lie, Waiting, waiting for its light. Refrain: Keep your light aglow for Jesus, Let it shine, brightly shine; Keep your light aglow for Jesus, Let it ever brightly shine. 2 Hold your little torch on high, Though so tiny be its ray; It may hush some saddened cry, It may turn some night to day. [Refrain] 3 Hold your little torch on high, Let it gleam o’er ocean tide; Some poor soul may sink and die, Waiting for its light to guide. [Refrain] 4 Hold your little torch on high, ‘Twas to you in mercy giv’n; Sinners then may glorify Our dear Father’s name in heav’n. [Refrain] Topics: Children Tune Title: [Hold your little torch on high]

Hold Your Little Torch on High

Author: Clara M. Brooks Hymnal: Junior Hymns #101 (1914) Refrain First Line: Keep your light aglow for Jesus Languages: English

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A. L. Byers

1869 - 1952 Composer of "[Hold your little torch on high]" in Songs of Grace and Glory Andrew Linnaeus Byers was born on August 26, 1869 in Albany, Illinois. Byers’ mother was song writer Nancy Byers. In 1890 he became involved with Daniel Warner & Barney Warren in evangelistic work; later joined the Gospel Trumpet publishing company as music editor for a year. He left that work because of health problems and worked as an evangelist and pastor in Idaho & Oregon before taking a pastorate in Sacramento, California, in 1934. He died on November 9, 1952 in Sacramento, California. His works include: Birth of a Reformation: The Life and Labors of D. S. Warner, 1922 NN, Hymnary.

Clara McAlister Brooks

1882 - 1980 Author of "Keep your light aglow for Jesus" Birth: Oct. 9, 1882, Parke County, Indiana, USA Death: Mar. 20, 1980, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA Clara McAlister Brooks was one of our early songwriters and four of her pieces are in the current hymnal. From the earliest days of the movement we have had women prominent in all forms of our ministry—missionaries, evangelists, teachers, pastors, and God has honored their sacrificial labors. For that reason we can stand in amazement when here, in the 1970s, such old-line denominations as the Episcopal church are being racked with controversy over whether the ordination of women is permissible. But before we gather Pharisaic robes about ourselves, perhaps we need to look candidly at the way in which we, too, succumbed to some of the cultural and prejudicial patterns of later decades! --www.whwomenclergy.org/articles/