Lighten the way with a song

There are sorrowful hearts that are going your way

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [There are sorrowful hearts that are going your way]
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. 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: There are sorrowful hearts that are going your way
Title: Lighten the way with a song
Author: Julia H. Johnston
Refrain First Line: Then lighten the way with a song
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Messenger for Jesus #d289

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Diadems #52

Greatest Hymns for use in the Churches #d292

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The New Evangel #13

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The Very Best #6

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