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Let the Lower Lights Be Burning Philip P. Bliss, pub.1871 Copyright: Public Domain Main subject: Light Scripture: Philippians 2:15; Luke 12:35 Let the Lower Lights Be Burning [.xml] Philip P. Bliss, pub.1871 Copyright: Public Domain Key: B♭ Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Learn about playing music formats... view Scorch sheet music [.sib] view PDF sheet music [.pdf] play midi [.mid]	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 struggling, fainting seaman You may rescue, you may save. Dark the night of sin has settled, Loud the angry billows roar; Eager eyes are watching, longing, For the lights along the shore. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother; Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed, Trying now to make the harbor, In the darkness may be lost. Original wording: fainting, struggling

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 *struggling, fainting seaman
  You may rescue, you may save.
Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.

*Original wording: fainting, struggling