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[Make your life a blessing as you onward go]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Will H. Ruebush Incipit: 33332 17656 53333 Used With Text: Make Your Life a Blessing
[Make your life a blessing as you onward go]

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Que Tu Vida Sea Una Bendicion

Author: V. Mendoza Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Que tu vida toda sea una bendición Refrain First Line: Que tu vida toda sea una bendición Used With Tune: [Que tu vida toda sea una bendición]
Que Tu Vida Sea Una Bendicion
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Make Your Life a Blessing

Author: W. H. R. Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Make your life a blessing as you onward go Refrain First Line: Make your life a blessing over life’s rough way Lyrics: 1 Make your life a blessing as you onward go, Lighten up dark corners, make them brightly glow; Shed a ray of sunshine bright, lead some soul from shades of night, Into perfect realms of light below. Refrain: Make your life a blessing over life’s rough way, Make your life a blessing, shed a cheering ray; Make the Saviour your design, Let your light forever shine, And be a blessing ev’ry day. 2 Make your life a blessing, full of joy complete, Clear away the thorns that pierce another’s feet; Put to flight their doubt and fear, bid the shadows disappear, By a happy word of cheer so sweet. [Refrain] 3 Make your life a blessing, sing of hope and love, Till the ringing echoes reach the dome above; Be a calm when storms are rife, glorify the walks of life, And a refuge from the strife e’er prove. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Make your life a blessing as you onward go]
Make Your Life a Blessing

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Make Your Life a Blessing

Author: W. H. R. Hymnal: Alexander's Hymns No. 3 #98 (1915) First Line: Make your life a blessing as you onward go Refrain First Line: Make your life a blessing over life’s rough way Lyrics: 1 Make your life a blessing as you onward go, Lighten up dark corners, make them brightly glow; Shed a ray of sunshine bright, lead some soul from shades of night, Into perfect realms of light below. Refrain: Make your life a blessing over life’s rough way, Make your life a blessing, shed a cheering ray; Make the Saviour your design, Let your light forever shine, And be a blessing ev’ry day. 2 Make your life a blessing, full of joy complete, Clear away the thorns that pierce another’s feet; Put to flight their doubt and fear, bid the shadows disappear, By a happy word of cheer so sweet. [Refrain] 3 Make your life a blessing, sing of hope and love, Till the ringing echoes reach the dome above; Be a calm when storms are rife, glorify the walks of life, And a refuge from the strife e’er prove. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Make your life a blessing as you onward go]
Make Your Life a Blessing

Que Tu Vida Sea Una Bendicion

Author: V. Mendoza Hymnal: Himnos Selectos #231 (1952) First Line: Que tu vida toda sea una bendición Refrain First Line: Que tu vida toda sea una bendición Languages: Spanish Tune Title: [Que tu vida toda sea una bendición]
Que Tu Vida Sea Una Bendicion

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Vicente P. Mendoza

1875 - 1955 Person Name: V. Mendoza Author of "Que Tu Vida Sea Una Bendicion" in Himnos Selectos Vicente Mendoza Born: De­cem­ber 24, 1875, Guad­a­la­ja­ra, Mex­i­co. Died: 1955, Mex­i­co Ci­ty, Mex­i­co. Mendoza stu­died in­i­tial­ly un­der Don Au­re­lio Or­te­ga. At age of 11 he went to work in a Pro­test­ant print shop in Mex­i­co Ci­ty and helped pro­duce El Evan­gel­is­ta Mex­i­ca­no (The Mex­i­can Evan­gel­ist) for the Meth­od­ist Church of the South; he rose to be­come its di­rect­or for 17 years. Look­ing to im­prove him­self, Men­do­za en­tered a night school for work­ers, but lat­er feel­ing the call to preach the Gos­pel, he en­tered the Pres­by­ter­i­an Sem­in­a­ry in Mex­i­co Ci­ty. When the sem­in­a­ry closed temp­o­rar­i­ly, Men­do­za en­tered the Meth­od­ist In­sti­tute of Pueb­la, where he fin­ished the course in the­ol­o­gy. In 1898 he be­came a mem­ber of the An­nu­al Con­fer­ence of the Mex­i­can Meth­od­ist Church. From 1915 to 1917, he be­longed to the South­ern Meth­od­ist Con­fer­ence of Cal­i­for­nia. Men­do­za worked on sev­er­al per­i­od­i­cals, in­clud­ing El Mun­do Crist­i­a­no (The Chris­tian World), El Abo­ga­do Crist­i­a­no (The Chris­tian Ad­vo­cate), and El Evan­gel­is­ta Crist­i­a­no (The Chris­tian Evan­gel­ist). © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)
Vicente P. Mendoza

W. H. Ruebush

1873 - 1956 Person Name: W. H. R. Author of "Make Your Life a Blessing" in Alexander's Hymns No. 3 William Howe Ruebush (Will H. Ruebush) 1873-1956 Born: June 4, 1873, Sing­ers Glen, Vir­gin­ia. Died: October 6, 1956, Elk­ton, Vir­gin­ia. A vo­cal mu­sic teach­er ear­ly in his ca­reer, Rue­bush di­rect­ed an ar­my band in France in World War I. Af­ter the war, he led ma­ny ci­vil­ian or­ches­tras and bands, and taught at sev­er­al schools, in­clud­ing the Shen­an­do­ah Con­serv­a­to­ry of Mu­sic in Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia. He com­posed ma­ny marches, in­clud­ing The Stone­wall Bri­gade March, Shen­an­do­ah, and the Al­ma Ma­ter Song for Tu­lane Un­i­ver­si­ty. Rue­bush spent most of his life in Day­ton, Vir­gin­ia, where he be­came pre­si­dent of the Rue­bush-Kieff­er Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny. Lyrics-- Cross Goes on Be­fore, The He Rolls the Stone Away I Am Hap­py Scatter Sun­shine Music-- --www.hymntime.com/tch
W. H. Ruebush
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