Is Your Lamp Still Burning?
- Words:
- Priscilla J. Owens
- Music:
- I. Baltzell
Sheet music
- 1Are you Christ's light bearer?Of His joy a sharer?Is this dark world fairerFor your cheering ray;Is your beacon lighted,Guiding souls benightedTo the land of perfect day?O, brother is your lamp trimmed and burning?Is the world made brighter by its cheering ray?Are you ever waiting for your Lord's returning?Are you watching day by day?
- 2Is your heart warm glowing,With His love o'er flowing,And His goodness showingMore and more each day?Are you pressing onwardWith Christ's faithful vanguard,In the safe and narrow way?O, brother is your lamp trimmed and burning?Is the world made brighter by its cheering ray?Are you ever waiting for your Lord's returning?Are you watching day by day?
- 3Keep your altars burning,Wait your Lord's returning,While your heart's deep yearningDraws Him ever near;With His radiance spleendidShall your light be blendedWhen His glory shall appear?O, brother is your lamp trimmed and burning?Is the world made brighter by its cheering ray?Are you ever waiting for your Lord's returning?Are you watching day by day?
In the hymnals
- The words are in 20 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.