Walk in the Light of God

Like a lamp unto your feet, A light from heaven glows

Author: Laurene Highfield; Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Like a lamp unto your feet]
Published in 14 hymnals

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Author: Laurene Highfield

Laurene Highfield was born in Quincy, Illinois. She wrote about three hundred hymns and sacred songs, the libretto of one orotorio and several cantatas among other works. NN Go to person page >

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Like a lamp unto your feet, A light from heaven glows
Title: Walk in the Light of God
Author: Laurene Highfield
Author: James Rowe
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O walk, walk, walk in the light of God
Publication Date: 1912
Copyright: Public Domain

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Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #543

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Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #840

Sacred Selections for the Church #180

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