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EPISODE · Oct 23, 2025 · 5 MIN

Hymn History: Let The Lower Lights Be Burning

from Traveler’s Tales · host Enjoying the Journey

Songwriter Philip Bliss was traveling with the famous evangelist D.L.Moody. While preaching, Mr. Moody told this true story behind what later became, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning. Hear the stirring account on today's Traveler's Tales.  Read this true story HERE. Browse more Traveler's Tales HERE Visit enjoyingthejourney.org/gospel/ to learn more about knowing Jesus. Lyrics: "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" 1. Brightly beams our Father’s mercy From His lighthouse evermore; But to us He gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore. (Refrain) Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave! Some poor fainting, struggling seaman You may rescue, you may save. 2. Dark the night of sin has settled, Loud the angry billows roar; Eager eyes are watching, longing, For the lights along the shore. (Refrain) 3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother! Some poor seaman, tempest-tossed, Trying now to make the harbor, In the darkness may be lost. (Refrain)

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