Light the Lamps Along the Way

There are pathways dark and lonely, where the sunshine never gleams

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith
Tune: [There are pathways dark and lonely]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith

Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, William J. Wilson, and his wife Sedelia Follett. Her father belonged to the Maine, and later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, when he with his family traveled in a covered wagon to the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska and Dakota. Later he returned to New England and founded out his sixty-four years in the ministry at an appointment in Hingham, Massachusetts. From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located. When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received som… Go to person page >

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First Line: There are pathways dark and lonely, where the sunshine never gleams
Title: Light the Lamps Along the Way
Author: Lanta Wilson Smith
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Light the lamps along your pathway
Publication Date: 1899
Copyright: Public Domain

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Diadems #59

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The Gospel Hymnal #11

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