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Let Your Light Shine

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Author: Amanda R. Meusch

A. R. Meusch is Amanda R. Meusch. Born in Illinois, the 1880 U. S. census shows her in Elmhurst IL as the nine-year-old daughter of Philipp Meusch, president of Elmhurst Proseminar. (That institution was the ‘Gymnasium’-level seminary-preparatory institution of the German Evangelical Synod of North America. Out of Elmhurst Proseminar would come Elmhurst College in the 1920’s: out of the German Evangelical Synod, through mergers, would come the Evangelical and Reformed and then the United Church of Christ.) Amanda’s younger brother, Frederick A. Meusch, would also become a G. E. S. N. A. minister. Amanda was fully bilingual: In addition to the hymn texts in English currently listed in Hymnary, the publication Rosche’s Geistl… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Let your light, so clear and cheering
Title: Let Your Light Shine
Author: Amanda R. Meusch
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Let your light beam through the darkness
Publication Date: 1898
Copyright: Public Domain

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Bright Beams #d36

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Garden of Spices #227

Song-Land Messenger No.2 #d113

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