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[Hold up God's true and saving light]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edmund Simon Lorenz Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55553 45444 25325 Used With Text: Hold The Lamp Of Life Aloft

Author: Jennie Bain Wilson Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Hold up God's true and saving light Refrain First Line: O hold the lamp of life aloft! Lyrics: 1 Hold up God’s true and saving light, The lamp of life divine; That brightly thro’ sin’s dreary night Its blessèd rays may shine. Refrain: O hold the lamp of life aloft! Let its light and its glory shine, Till each land and isle afar, Where immortal spirits are, Shall rejoice in the light divine. 2 On life’s great deep our brother’s bark Is drifting with the tide; The beacon gleaming thro’ the dark, From danger’s course to guide. [Refrain] 3 In error’s gloom with none to save From never ending loss, Stray precious souls for whom Christ gave His blood upon the cross. [Refrain] 4 While we in God’s true light rejoice, For help a righteous plea Comes to us in a plaintive voice From sad lands o’er the sea. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Hold up God's true and saving light] Text Sources: Missionary Songs (New York: Lorenz & Company, 1880)

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Hold The Lamp Of Life Aloft

Author: Jennie Bain Wilson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8595 First Line: Hold up God's true and saving light Refrain First Line: O hold the lamp of life aloft! Lyrics: 1 Hold up God’s true and saving light, The lamp of life divine; That brightly thro’ sin’s dreary night Its blessèd rays may shine. Refrain: O hold the lamp of life aloft! Let its light and its glory shine, Till each land and isle afar, Where immortal spirits are, Shall rejoice in the light divine. 2 On life’s great deep our brother’s bark Is drifting with the tide; The beacon gleaming thro’ the dark, From danger’s course to guide. [Refrain] 3 In error’s gloom with none to save From never ending loss, Stray precious souls for whom Christ gave His blood upon the cross. [Refrain] 4 While we in God’s true light rejoice, For help a righteous plea Comes to us in a plaintive voice From sad lands o’er the sea. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Hold up God's true and saving light]

Hold up the Lamp of Life

Author: Jennie Wilson Hymnal: Sons of Praise #5 (1906) First Line: Hold up God's true and saving light Refrain First Line: Hold up the Lamp of Life! Languages: English Tune Title: [Hold up God's true and saving light]

Hold Up the Lamp of Life

Author: Miss Jennie Wilson Hymnal: Missionary Songs #10 (1895) First Line: Hold up God's true and saving light Refrain First Line: O hold the lamp of life aloft! Languages: English Tune Title: [Hold up God's true and saving light]

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Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: Edmund Simon Lorenz Composer of "[Hold up God's true and saving light]" in The Cyber Hymnal Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives

Jennie Wilson

1857 - 1913 Person Name: Jennie Bain Wilson Author of "Hold The Lamp Of Life Aloft" in The Cyber Hymnal Wilson, Jennie Bain. (d. 3 September 1913). Obituaries available in the DNAH Archives. =============================== Jennie Bain Wilson, 1857-1913 Born: 1857, on a Farm Near South Whitley, Indiana. Died: Circa 1913. Afflicted with a spinal condition at age four, Wilson spent her life in a wheel chair. She never attended school, but was educated at home. She is said to have written over 2,200 texts. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)