Beautiful Star (Thomas)

Jesus is the star of guid­ance

Shining bright up­on our way

Leading ev­er thro’ the dark­ness

Up to realms of end­less day.

Hail

O star that shines in splen­dor

Thro’ the dark­ness of the night!

Shining o’er the fields of er­ror

Doubt and gloom will take their flight.

Beautiful star

beau­ti­ful star

Thy ra­di­ance o’er us is steal­ing;

Beautiful star

beau­ti­ful star

To mor­tals a glo­ry re­veal­ing.

When of old the wise men jour­neyed

Where the lit­tle Christ child lay

Up in heav’n a star so won­drous

Shone to guide them on their way;

And they saw the star of glo­ry

Knew at once this as the sign

That to them as born a Sav­ior

Him of roy­al Da­vid’s line.

Bearing gifts of love they fol­low

Till they find the Lord of all

Cradled lo­wly in a man­ger

And be­fore His feet they fall.

Then they wor­ship and ad­ore Him

Jesus Christ the in­fant King;

Costly gifts of gold and in­cense

To His hum­ble throne they bring.