Try to Scatter Sunshine

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Would you help some brother over life's weary road

Author: Johnson Oatman
Tune: [Would you help some brother over life's weary road]
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 Would you help some brother o’er life’s weary road?
Help some weary pilgrim bear his heavy load?
Be a cheerful Christian and with courage strong,
Try to scatter sunshine as you pass along.

Refrain:
Scatter pleasant sunshine all along life’s way,
Scatter golden sunshine every hour and day;
Scatter heav’nly sunshine with a word or song,
Try to scatter sunshine as you pass along.

2 Hearts today are weary with the load they bear;
Every life has burdens you may help to share;
Would you help some brother battle ‘gainst the wrong?
Try to scatter sunshine as you pass along. [Refrain]

3 To that one in sorrow say that God is love;
To that one in darkness point the way above;
Tell that poor weak brother Christ can make him strong,
Try to scatter sunshine as you pass along. [Refrain]

4 Scatter rays of sunshine, time is moving on;
Would you be remembered after you are gone?
Then while on your journey sing your brightest song,
Try to scatter sunshine as you pass along. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Grace and Glory: A New and Inspiring Selection of Sacred Songs for Evangelical Use and General Worship #106

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Author: Johnson Oatman

Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Would you help some brother over life's weary road
Title:	Try to Scatter Sunshine
Author:	Johnson Oatman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Scatter pleasant sunshine all along the way
Copyright:	Public Domain