There's a shout in the camp, keep the fires brightly burning

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There's a shout in the camp, keep the fires brightly burning

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [There's a shout in the camp: Keep the fires brightly burning]
Published in 12 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There’s a shout in the camp: “Keep the fires brightly burning
All the night long,”
That the lost may return to the fold of the Shepherd
From paths of wrong.

Refrain:
There’s a shout in the camp, Hallelujah!
Glory to God!
There’s an echo in heav’n, Hallelujah!
Glory to God!

2 There’s a shout in the camp for vict’ry is coming
O’er Satan’s pow’r;
Thro’ the word of the Lord we the battle are gaining
This very hour. [Refrain]

3 There’s a shout in the camp over sinners returning
Home to the fold,
From the byway of sin with its burden of sorrow
To joy untold. [Refrain]

4 There’s a shout in the camp, ‘tis a glad “hallelujah!
Praise ye the Lord;”
All who trust in his name shall receive His salvation,
‘Tis God’s own word. [Refrain]

Source: Songs for All #57

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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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