The Cyber Hymnal ‎#3661

3661. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

1. Brightly beams our Father’s mercy
from His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
of the lights along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
For to us He gives the keeping
of the lights along the shore.
[or Some poor struggling, sinking sailor
you may rescue, you may save.]

2. Dark the night of sin has settled,
loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
for the lights, along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
for the lights, along the shore.

3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother,
some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Trying now to make the harbor,
some poor sailor may be lost.

Text Information

• First Line: Brightly beams our Father's mercy
• Title: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
• Author: Philip P. Bliss (1871)
• Language: English
• Source: The Charm, 1871
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: On a dark, stormy, night, when the waves rolled like mount­ains, and not a star was to be seen, a boat, rock­ing and plung­ing, neared the Cleve­land har­bor. "Are you sure this is Cleve­land?" asked the cap­tain, see­ing on­ly one light from the light-house. "Quite sure, sir," re­plied the pi­lot. "Where are the low­er lights?" "Gone out, sir." "Can you make the har­bor?" "We must, or per­ish, sir!" And with a strong hand and a brave heart, the old pi­lot turned the wheel. But alas, in the dark­ness he missed the channel, and with a crash upon the rocks the boat was shiv­ered, and ma­ny a life lost in a wat­ery grave. Breth­ren, the Mas­ter will take care of the great light-house: let us keep the low­er lights burn­ing! D. L. Moody.

Tune Information

• Name: [Brightly beams our Father's mercy]
• Composer: Philip Paul Bliss (1871)
• Incipit: 56532 17666 21712
• Key: B♭ Major
• Source: The Charm, 1871
• Copyright: Public Domain