Carry the Sunlight

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Carry the sunlight wherever you go, Many are living in darkness and woe

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Carry the sunlight wherever you go] (Gabriel)
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Carry the sunlight wherever you go;
Many are living in darkness and woe;
That to the world you his goodness may prove,
Carry the sunlight of Christ and his love.

Refrain:
Carry the sunlight,
Beautiful light of his love;
Tell the glad story of Christ and his glory
Wherever you go;
Carry the sunlight,
Beautiful light of his love;
Tell the glad story of Christ and his glory
Wherever you go.

2 Some are discouraged, and weary, oppressed;
Lead them to Jesus where they may find rest;
He can all sin and its burden remove;
Carry the sunlight of Christ and his love. [Refrain]

3 Carry the sunlight by night and by day,
Scatter it lovingly over your way;
Till you are called to the city above,
Carry the sunlight of Christ and his love. [Refrain]

Source: Sunday School Voices: a collection of sacred songs #140

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Carry the sunlight wherever you go, Many are living in darkness and woe
Title:	Carry the Sunlight
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Carry the sunlight
Publication Date:	1909
Copyright:	Public Domain