Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy

148 Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy

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 seaman, tempest-tossed,
   Trying now to make the harbor,
   In the darkness may be lost. [Refrain]
                         Philip P. Bliss
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1964 edition

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This hymn is probably better known by the first line of the refrain, "Let the lower lights be burning." It occurs in a little over 550 hymnals.
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