Life is like the rolling ocean

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Life is like the rolling ocean

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [Life is like the rolling ocean, deep and wide]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Life is like the rolling ocean, deep and wide,
Souls are ever borne upon its restless tide;
If into the harbor you would safely guide,
Let your light shine and show the way.

Refrain:
Shine and show the way,
Shine and show the way,
Get a burning flame from Christ the Light Divine;
Then you’ll brightly shine,
Ever brightly shine,
Be a living light to shine and show the way.

2 There’s enough of sadness, there’s enough of woe,
There’s enough of darkness in the world below;
Be a living lighthouse ev’rywhere you go,
Let your light shine and show the way. [Refrain]

3 Heaven is the harbor we will reach at last,
When the sea of life with all its storms is pass’d,
Would you have another safe his anchor cast?
Let your light shine and show the way. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Pentecost No. 3 #0

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Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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