Let Your Light Shine

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Let your light, so clear and cheering

Author: Amanda R. Meusch
Tune: [Let your light, so clear and cheering]
Published in 3 hymnals

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 >

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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