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[Now trim your lamp for Jesus]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: T. Martin Towne Incipit: 51117 12553 33 Used With Text: Trim Your Lamps
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Trim Your Lamp

Author: E. Lena Griswold Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Now trim your lamp for Jesus Refrain First Line: Then trim your lamp for Jesus Lyrics: 1 Now trim your lamp for Jesus, Let not your light be dim; Full well He knows each action That you may do for Him. Refrain: Then trim your lamp for Jesus, And to your faith be true; The world will judge of Jesus By what they see in you. 2 Now trim your lamp for Jesus, Nor let it hidden be; Be not ashamed of Jesus, He’s not ashamed of thee. [Refrain] 3 Now trim your lamp for Jesus; ’Tis He who bids you shine; And His shall be the glory, A crown of life be thine. [Refrain] 4 Then trim your lamp for Jesus, Nor deem it e’er a cross To bravely shine for Jesus ’Mid earthly sin and loss. [Refrain] Used With Tune: APIA Text Sources: Welcome Songs, by T. Martin Towne and David C. Cook (Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Company, 1894)
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Trim Your Lamp

Author: E. Lena Griswold Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7860 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D First Line: Now trim your lamp for Jesus Refrain First Line: Then trim your lamp for Jesus Lyrics: 1 Now trim your lamp for Jesus, Let not your light be dim; Full well He knows each action That you may do for Him. Refrain: Then trim your lamp for Jesus, And to your faith be true; The world will judge of Jesus By what they see in you. 2 Now trim your lamp for Jesus, Nor let it hidden be; Be not ashamed of Jesus, He’s not ashamed of thee. [Refrain] 3 Now trim your lamp for Jesus; ’Tis He who bids you shine; And His shall be the glory, A crown of life be thine. [Refrain] 4 Then trim your lamp for Jesus, Nor deem it e’er a cross To bravely shine for Jesus ’Mid earthly sin and loss. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: APIA
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Author: E. Lena Griswold Hymnal: Kingdom of Song for the Sunday School #9 (1900) First Line: Now trim your lamp for Jesus Refrain First Line: Then trim your lamp for Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Now trim your lamp for Jesus]
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Trim Your Lamps

Author: E. Lena Griswold Hymnal: Welcome Songs #10 (1894) First Line: Now trim your lamp for Jesus Refrain First Line: Then trim your lamp for Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Now trim your lamp for Jesus]
Trim Your Lamps

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T. Martin Towne

1835 - 1912 Person Name: Thomas Martin Towne Composer of "APIA" in The Cyber Hymnal Towne, T. Martin. (Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, May 31 [sic], 1835-- ). Methodist. Attended Williston's Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. 1855 to Hudson, New York, then Albany. Taught in Ypsilanti, Michigan, then Detroit. Settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. Served in the Civil War. Settled in Chicago; married Belle Kellogg. Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives
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E. L. Griswold

Person Name: E. Lena Griswold Author of "Trim Your Lamp" in The Cyber Hymnal
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