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| Text: | Are you Christ's light bearer? |
| Author: | Priscilla J. Owens |
| Tune: | IS YOUR LAMP BURNING? |
| Composer: | I. Baltzell |
1 Are you Christ's light bearer?
Of his joy a sharer?
Is this dark world fairer
For your cheering ray?
Is your beacon lighted,
Guiding souls benighted
To the land of perfect day?
Chorus:
O brother! is your lamp trimmed and burning?
Is the world made brighter by its cheering ray?
Are you waiting, yearning
For your Lord's returning?
Are you watching day by day?
2 Is your heart warm, glowing,
With his love o'erflowing,
And his goodness showing
More and more each day?
Are you pressing onward
With his faithful vanguard,
In the safe and narrow way? [Chorus]
3 Keep your altars burning,
Wait your Lord's returning,
While your heart's deep yearning
Draws him ever near;
With his radiance splendid
Shall your light be blended
When his glory shall appear. [Chorus]
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Are you Christ's light bearer? |
| Author: | Priscilla J. Owens |
| Refrain First Line: | O brother! is your lamp trimmed and burning? |
| Publication Date: | 1886 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | Bible Songs: Missionary Songs |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | IS YOUR LAMP BURNING? |
| Composer: | I. Baltzell |
| Key: | C Major |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
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