Send the Light (Barrows)

lyricist: Emma Barrows, 1899
Composer: Joseph Webster, 1868

There are lands far away o’er the sea

Where in dark­ness are souls seek­ing light

And the call comes to you and to me

Who have learned of the way pure and right.

Send the light all the way

That the mar­ve­lous glo­ry di­vine

Turn the dark­ness to day

Till the whole world for Je­sus shall shine.

In the dark­ness of er­ror they grope

And the Sav­ior in whom we ab­ide

Cannot cheer with one bright ray of hope

Till we teach them to walk by His side.

Bearing light is a part we may do

Holding high that its beams reach afar

So the light of the truth shine anew

Beaming forth from the bright Morn­ing Star.

Those who lead souls by light all di­vine

Those who tell of God’s won­der­ful love

As the stars ev­er­more they shall shine

In the bright­ness of glo­ry ab­ove.

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