Send a Gleam Across the Wave

Each year the men from our local church join me for a three-day retreat along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Our first stop is at the Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station.

On these grounds remembered for courageous at-sea rescues, a quartet from our men's group stands among us and sings an old inspiring hymn written by Philip P. Bliss -- "Let The Lower Lights Be Burning". It reaches to the depths of our souls.

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Brightly beams our Father’s mercy,
From His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.

Refrain:
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor struggling, fainting seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.

Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.

Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.

BE LIGHT! GO SHINE!
Grateful