Uplift every valley, the sunlight to share

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Uplift every valley, the sunlight to share

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Uplift every valley, the sunlight to share]
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 Uplift every valley, the sunlight to share;
Bring low every mountain by faith’s conqu’ring pray’r;
For service so blessed, your best efforts bring,
To souls that need Jesus, make paths for the King.

Refrain:
Make paths for the King!
Till earth with his praises shall ring;
Make paths for the King!
O Christian, make paths for the King!

2 More lab’rers are wanted, the work is so great;
With courage and kindness, things crooked make straight;
Let love’s crystal fountains abundantly spring
Far out in the desert; make paths for the King. [Refrain]

3 Seek out the rough places, and smooth them with love;
Use sympathy, patience and pow’r from above;
Remember life’s seasons pass by on the wing,
The Master is coming! make paths for the King. [Refrain]

Source: United Praise: for use in Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies and other Church Services #105

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Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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