1 As thro’ life you journey,
Be a cheering light,
Like the sun at morning,
Beautiful and bright;
Shine in gloomy places,
As you pass them by,
Cheer the lives that sorrow,
Gladden those who sigh.
Refrain:
Daily, hourly, be a cheering light,
Glowing, gleaming, beautiful and bright;
Like a beacon burning in the night,
Glowing, gleaming, beautiful and bright.
2 Like a beacon burning
On a hill at night,
You may shed around you
Happiness and light;
Try to help the weary,
Thro’ the dreary days,
Try to guide the wayward,
From forbidden ways. [Refrain]
3 Steadily and brightly,
Shining day by day,
You will scatter blessings
All along the way;
Less of care and sorrow,
Many hearts will know,
If you gleam and glisten
Ev’rywhere you go. [Refrain]
Source: The King of Glory #195
Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
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