1 Bright hours in Jesus find;
Sunny hours, happy hours;
His ways are good and kind;
And His light shines through the show’rs.
Refrain:
In our Saviour, there is joy,
When He rules within the heart;
Happy songs our lips employ,
When we choose the better part;
We find in Him alone,
The pleasures earth has never known;
And joy in wondrous love,
Grows brighter till we meet above.
2 Bright hours in service blest,
Sunny hours, happy hours;
Serve Him who loves us best,
Helping us with heav’nly pow’rs. [Refrain]
3 Bright hours in pray’r and praise,
Sunny hours, happy hours;
Till after earthly days,
We arise to fadeless bow’rs. [Refrain]
Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #100
Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >
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