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[Is there a ray of God's brightness]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Incipit: 55566 15113 21123 Used With Text: Hold Up the Light

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Is there a ray of God's brightness Refrain First Line: Hold up the light, Hold up the light Lyrics: 1 Is there a ray of God's brightness That you to some soul may impart? Is there a bit of heart-lightness That you may bestow on some heart. Chorus: Hold up the light, Hold up the light Till darkness is melted away, The light that increased forever, Till cometh God's beautiful day. 2 Will you help some one in blindness To light that he never has had? Hold up the light of God's kindness And let it make somebody glad. [Chorus] 3 Hold up the light of God's comfort, The light that his love hath bestowed; Hold it aloft for the pilgrims Who travel a sorrowful road. [Chorus] 4 Hold up the light of salvation, The glory that never shall cease; Hold up the light of God's mercy, The light of his pardon and peace. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Is there a ray of God's brightness]

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Hold Up the Light

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: The Golden Sheaf #102 (1902) First Line: Is there a ray of God's brightness Refrain First Line: Hold up the light, Hold up the light Lyrics: 1 Is there a ray of God's brightness That you to some soul may impart? Is there a bit of heart-lightness That you may bestow on some heart. Chorus: Hold up the light, Hold up the light Till darkness is melted away, The light that increased forever, Till cometh God's beautiful day. 2 Will you help some one in blindness To light that he never has had? Hold up the light of God's kindness And let it make somebody glad. [Chorus] 3 Hold up the light of God's comfort, The light that his love hath bestowed; Hold it aloft for the pilgrims Who travel a sorrowful road. [Chorus] 4 Hold up the light of salvation, The glory that never shall cease; Hold up the light of God's mercy, The light of his pardon and peace. [Chorus] Tune Title: [Is there a ray of God's brightness]

Hold Up the Light

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Hymnal: Sermons in Song #116 (1894) First Line: Is there a ray of God's brightness Languages: English Tune Title: [Is there a ray of God's brightness]

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Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Author of "Hold Up the Light" in The Golden Sheaf Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Composer of "[Is there a ray of God's brightness]" in The Golden Sheaf Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton