The Evening Light

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Brighter days are sweetly dawning

Author: D. S. Warner (1885)
Tune: [Brighter days are sweetly dawning]
Published in 11 hymnals

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1 Brighter days are sweetly dawning,
O the glory looms in sight!
For the cloudy day is waning,
And the evening shall be light.

Refrain:
O what golden glory streaming!
Purer light is coming fast;
Now in Christ we’ve found a freedom
Which eternally shall last.

2 Misty fogs, so long concealing
All the hills of mingled night,
Vanish, all their sin revealing,
For the evening shall be light. [Refrain]

3 Satan, the accusing dragon,
Once assumed an angel bright,
But he’s driven out of Heaven,
By the blessèd evening light. [Refrain]

4 Lo! the ransomed are returning,
Robed in shining crystal white,
Leaping, shouting, home to Zion,
Happy in the evening light. [Refrain]

5 Free from Babel, in the Spirit,
Free to worship God aright;
Joy and gladness we’re receiving,
O how sweet this evening light! [Refrain]

6 Hallelujah! saints are singing,
Victory in Jehovah’s might;
Glory! glory! keep it ringing,
We are saved in evening light! [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #12215

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Author: D. S. Warner

Warner, Daniel Sidney. (near Marshallville, Wayne County, Ohio, 1842--1895). Church of God. Reared on an Ohio farm. During the Civil War, he substituted for a brother. Later he taught school. He attended Oberlin College briefly in 1865. By 1867 he was licensed to preach by the Western Ohio Eldership of the Church of God (Winebrennerian). His experience in preaching was gained on circuits in Nebraska and Ohio. In 1874 he was in trouble with the Eldership for preaching entire sanctification. Soon he joined the Indiana Eldership. In 1881 he was in trouble with this Eldership over sectism. Warner was an associate editor of the Herals of Gospel Freedom in 1878. this paper was merged with the Pilgrim about 1881, and the new paper was called th… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Brighter days are sweetly dawning
Title:	The Evening Light
Author:	D. S. Warner (1885)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O what golden glory streaming
Copyright:	Public Domain