Walk in the Light of God

Like a lamp unto your feet, A light from heaven glows

Author: Laurene Highfield; Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Like a lamp unto your feet]
Published in 12 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Like a lamp unto your feet,
A light from heaven glows,
From the land which needs no sun or moon
Nor ever darkness knows,
And radiant with a living splendor
Makes the way so bright,
You can walk, safely walk,
On the upward path of right.

Refrain:
O walk, walk, walk in the light of God;
In the light the perfect light Making plain the path of right,
Walk in faith, walk in trust Up the slope where saints have trod;
Keep the narrow way, Leading on to endless day,
Walk in hope, walk in peace, In the perfect light of God.

2 Like a lamp unto your feet,
The holy light-beams shine,
With the brightness of a cloudless sun,
A glory all divine;
Tho you must go 'mong bri'rs and brambles,
Nothing shall you fear,
Ever walk, safely walk,
In the light so white and clear. [Refrain]

3 Like a lamp unto your feet,
The light makes plain the way,
Turning not aside where shadows linger,
Lest afar you stray;
Keep in the path, tho it is stony,
Never need you fall,
Ever walk, safely walk,
In the light that shines for all. [Refrain]


Source: Melodies of Love #112

Author: Laurene Highfield

Laurene Highfield was born in Quincy, Illinois. She wrote about three hundred hymns and sacred songs, the libretto of one orotorio and several cantatas among other works. NN Go to person page >

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Like a lamp unto your feet, A light from heaven glows
Title: Walk in the Light of God
Author: Laurene Highfield
Author: James Rowe
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O walk, walk, walk in the light of God
Publication Date: 1912
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #543

Text

Melodies of Love #112

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #840

Sacred Selections for the Church #180

Include 8 pre-1979 instances
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