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[Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. Jos. F. Knapp Incipit: 53334 34655 77771 Used With Text: Is your lamp burning?

Is your lamp burning?

Appears in 65 hymnals First Line: Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian Refrain First Line: Lift your lamp higher Used With Tune: [Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian]

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Hymnal: Sunday School Songs #42 (1880) First Line: Say, is your lamp burning, O Christian Refrain First Line: Lift your lamp higher Languages: English Tune Title: [Say, is your lamp burning, O Christian]

Is Your Lamp Burning?

Hymnal: Sermons in Song No. 2 #76 (1899) First Line: Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian Refrain First Line: Lift your lamp higher Languages: English Tune Title: [Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian]

Is your lamp burning?

Hymnal: Christian Hymns No. 1 #86 (1899) First Line: Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian Refrain First Line: Lift your lamp higher Languages: English Tune Title: [Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian]

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Phoebe Palmer Knapp

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. Jos. F. Knapp Composer of "[Say, is your lamp burning? O Christian]" in Christian Hymns No. 1 As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman