God Make My Life a Little Light

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God make my life a little light Within the world to glow

Author: Matilda Edwards
Published in 94 hymnals

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1 God make my life a little light
Within the world to glow;
A little flame that burneth bright
Wherever I may go.

2 God make my life a little flower
That giveth joy to all,
Content to bloom in native bower
Although the place be small.

3 God make my life a little song
That comforteth the sad,
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad.

4 God make my life a little staff
Whereon the weak may rest,
That so what strength and health I have
May serve my neighbours best.

Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #838

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Author: Matilda Edwards

Born: March 4, 1836, Westerfield (near Ipswich), England. Died: January 4, 1919, Hastings, Sussex, England. [Matilda Betham Edwards (1836-1919)] Daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards, Matilda was educated in Ipswich and Peckham, and traveled extensively, especially in Germany and France. Her works include: The White House by the Sea, 1857 Dr. Jacob, 1864 Kitty, 1869 Poems, 1885 Lord of the Harvest, 1899 --www.hymntime.com/tch… Go to person page >

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First Line:	God make my life a little light Within the world to glow
Title:	God Make My Life a Little Light
Author:	Matilda Edwards
Refrain First Line:	A little light, a little light

Matthew 5:14
(hymns)

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Tune

SAWLEY (Walch)

This tune was composed by James Walch in 1857 for a children's anniversary, and was published in 1860 with other tunes for private circulation. It was wrongly assigned, in the early editions of [The Free Church Hymnal, 1888] to the Rev. F. Pigou. Scottish church music: its sources and composers, 189…

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CAPEL (English)

HOLY CROSS (53215)

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