![]() Sons and daughters to be kept from being wrecked as they are tossed about upon the sea of life must be kept by the light of sanctified home influence burning brightly. Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost. Burn dim Never Impossible' Every parent is a spiritual lighthouse. Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed, 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Some poor struggling, sinking seaman you may rescue, you may save.ĭark the night of sin has settled, loud the angry billows roar Įager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore. 1 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave! Bliss, The Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music (Chicago, Illinois: Root & Cady, 1871)īrightly beams our Father’s mercy from His lighthouse evermore,īut to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore. We keep that light burning so that we can direct people to the cross. ![]() Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. As His holy fire burns in you and your zeal grows for the Lord’s work, be sure to keep that zeal grounded. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Open your heart to receive a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. But alas, in the darkness he missed the channel, and with a crash upon the rocks the boat was shivered, and many a life lost in a watery grave.īrethren, the Master will take care of the great light-house: let us keep the lower lights burning! In sum, hear and obey Jesus’ command to keep your lamps burning: Stay fired up for the Lord, alert and ready to serve Him. “Are you sure this is Cleveland?” asked the captain, seeing only one light from the light-house.Īnd with a strong hand and a brave heart, the old pilot turned the wheel. On a dark, stormy, night, when the waves rolled like mountains, and not a star was to be seen, a boat, rocking and plunging, neared the Cleveland harbor.
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