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.

Refrain:

Let the lower lights be burning!

Send a gleam across the wave!

Some poor fainting, struggling seaman

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. [Refrain]

3

Trim your feeble lamp, my brother!

Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,

Trying now to make the harbor,

In the darkness may be lost. [Refrain]

 

Author: P. P. Bliss (1871)

Matthew 5:14-16

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

This reminds me of another old song -- The Lighthouse

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There's a lighthouse on the hillside

That overlooks life's sea

When I'm tossed, it sends out a light

That I might see

And the light that shines in darkness now

Will safely lead us o'er

If it wasn't for the lighthouse

My ship would be no more

2

It seems that every one about us says,

Tear that old lighthouse down

The big ships don't pass this way anymore

There's no use in it standin' round.

Then my mind goes back to that stormy night

When just in time I saw the light

The light from that old lighthouse

That stands up on the hill

CHORUS

And I thank God for the lighthouse

I owe my life to Him

Jesus is the lighthouse

And from the rocks of sin

He has shown a light around me

That I might clearly see

If it wasn't for the lighthouse

Where would this ship be

Songwriters: Ronnie Hinson

Isaiah 9:2

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

John 8:12

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.