The Encourager

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Lord, help me encourage my brother today

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Lord, help me encourage my brother today]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Lord, help me encourage my brother today,
His heart needs the cheer I can bring;
My words may be roses beside a bleak way,
My song may show him how to sing.

Refrain:
Lord, help me encourage my brother today,
Perchance I may have but a smile;
But that may speak louder than words I might say,
And banish the gloom for awhile.

2 Lord, help me encourage my brother today,
There’s minor enough and to spare;
The song shall be major, I’ll teach him to play,
The song shall help banish his care.

Refrain:
Lord, help me encourage my brother today,
Lord, help me to lighten his load,
Help me to encourage my brother, I pray,
Lord, help me to brighten his road.

Source: Progressive Sunday School Songs #5

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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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