Hold up God’s true and saving light,
The lamp of life divine;
That brightly thro’ sin’s dreary night
Its blessèd rays may shine.

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O hold the lamp of life aloft!
Let its light and its glo­ry shine,
Till each land and isle afar,
Where immortal spirits are,
Shall rejoice in the light divine.

On life’s great deep our brother’s bark
Is drifting with the tide;
The beacon gleaming thro’ the dark,
From danger’s course to guide.

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In error’s gloom with none to save
From ne­ver ending loss,
Stray precious souls for whom Christ gave
His blood upon the cross.

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While we in God’s true light rejoice,
For help a righteous plea
Comes to us in a plaintive voice
From sad lands o’er the sea.

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