I Love to Scatter Sunshine

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I love to share a sorrow

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [I love to share a sorrow]
Published in 9 hymnals

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1 I love to share a sorrow,
I love to dry a tear,
I love to aid the weary,
And give the sad heart cheer,
I love to scatter sunshine,
As on my way I go;
For this is work for Jesus,
And O, I love Him so.

Refrain:
I love to scatter sunshine,
As on my way I go,
For this is work for Jesus,
And O, I love Him so,
I love to scatter sunshine,
As on my way I go,
For this is work for Jesus,
And O, I love Him so.

2 I love to lift the fallen,
And comfort those distressed,
I love to cheer and gladden,
The lonely and oppressed,
I love to brighten pathways
And share another’s woe;
For this is work for Jesus,
And O, I love Him so. [Refrain]

3 I love to bear His banner
Amid the worldly throng;
I love to spread His gospel,
By story and by song,
I love to plead with sinners,
Until to Him they go;
For this is work for Jesus,
And O, I love Him so. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #114

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I love to share a sorrow
Title:	I Love to Scatter Sunshine
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I love to scatter sunshine
Copyright:	Public Domain