Text:Is Your Lamp Burning?
Author:Priscilla J. Owens
Tune:[Are you Christ's light bearer?]
Composer:I. Baltzell

481. Is Your Lamp Burning?

1 Are you Christ's light bearer?
Of his joy a sharer?
Is this 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 trimm'd and burning?
Is the world made brighter by its cheering ray?
Are you wailing, yearning
For your Lord's returning?
Are you watching day by day?

2 Is your heart warm, glowing,
With his love o'er flowing,
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?
Title: Is Your Lamp Burning?
Author: Priscilla J. Owens
Refrain First Line: O brother! is your lamp trimm'd and burning?
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Living His Life: Light of the World
Tune Information
Name: [Are you Christ's light bearer?]
Composer: I. Baltzell
Key: C Major



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