Hold your lighted torch on high

Author: Clara McAlister Brooks
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 Hold your lighted torch on high,
Ever keep it burning bright;
Souls in sin and darkness lie,
Waiting, waiting for its light.

Chorus:
Keep your light aglow for Jesus.
Let it shine, brightly shine;
Keep your light aglow for Jesus,
Let it ever brightly shine.

2 Hold your lighted torch on high,
Tho' so tiny be its ray;
It may hush some saddened cry,
It may turn some night to day. [Chorus]

3 Hold your lighted torch on high,
Let it gleam o’er ocean tide;
Some poor soul may sink and die,
Waiting for its light to guide. [Chorus]

4 Hold your lighted torch on high,
’Twas to you in mercy giv’n
If to save the lost you try
You may guide some soul to heav’n. [Chorus]

Source: Children's Praise and Worship #d57

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Author: Clara McAlister Brooks

Birth: Oct. 9, 1882, Parke County, Indiana, USA Death: Mar. 20, 1980, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA Clara McAlister Brooks was one of our early songwriters and four of her pieces are in the current hymnal. From the earliest days of the movement we have had women prominent in all forms of our ministry—missionaries, evangelists, teachers, pastors, and God has honored their sacrificial labors. For that reason we can stand in amazement when here, in the 1970s, such old-line denominations as the Episcopal church are being racked with controversy over whether the ordination of women is permissible. But before we gather Pharisaic robes about ourselves, perhaps we need to look candidly at the way in which we, too, succumbed to so… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Hold your lighted torch on high
Author:	Clara McAlister Brooks
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Keep your light aglow for Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain