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[Are you shining for Jesus, your Savior?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Incipit: 34512 34332 23471 Used With Text: Are You Shining?

Author: T. H. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Are you shining for Jesus your Savior Refrain First Line: Shine on, shine on for Jesus Lyrics: 1 Are you shining for Jesus your Savior? Are you shining each step of the way, So that others now lost in the darkness May be led to the Savior today? Refrain: Shine on, shine on for Jesus Thro’ life’s long darksome night; Shine on, shine on for Jesus Till dawns the morning light; Shine on, shine on for Jesus In this dark land of woe; Shine on for Christ, your Savior, Ev’rywhere you go. 2 Do you trust him for heavenly guidance? Are you looking to Jesus in pray’r, So that all who are groping in blindness May behold your light burning and fair? [Refrain] 3 Keep your lamp trimmed and burnished, dear brother, Hold a torch o’er the boisterous wave, Throw the life-line to poor whip-wrecked sailors, Lend a hand your lost comrades to save. [Refrain] Topics: Helping Others; Light; Missionary; Service Used With Tune: [Are you shining for Jesus your Savior]

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Are You Shining?

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Inspiring Songs No. 1 #74 (1906) First Line: Are you shining for Jesus your Savior Refrain First Line: Shine on, shine on for Jesus Lyrics: 1 Are you shining for Jesus your Savior? Are you shining each step of the way, So that others now lost in the darkness May be led to the Savior today? Refrain: Shine on, shine on for Jesus Thro’ life’s long darksome night; Shine on, shine on for Jesus Till dawns the morning light; Shine on, shine on for Jesus In this dark land of woe; Shine on for Christ, your Savior, Ev’rywhere you go. 2 Do you trust him for heavenly guidance? Are you looking to Jesus in pray’r, So that all who are groping in blindness May behold your light burning and fair? [Refrain] 3 Keep your lamp trimmed and burnished, dear brother, Hold a torch o’er the boisterous wave, Throw the life-line to poor whip-wrecked sailors, Lend a hand your lost comrades to save. [Refrain] Topics: Helping Others; Light; Missionary; Service Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you shining for Jesus your Savior]

Are You Shining?

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Gospel Carols #77 (1905) First Line: Are you shining for Jesus, your Savior? Refrain First Line: Shine on, shine on for Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Are you shining for Jesus, your Savior?]

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Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Person Name: T. H. Author of "Are You Shining?" in Gospel Carols Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch