Stirring arrangement of Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning, perfect for prelude, offertory, or other
special service music
“Let the Lower Lights Be Burning” was inspired by a
D.L. Moody sermon. Moody once told a story of a ship
approaching Cleveland Harbor. The lighthouse showed
where the harbor was, but other lights that were
supposed to mark the harbor’s entry (the “lower
lights”) had gone out, due to negligence. Unable to
tell where the danger lay, the pilot ran the ship in...(+)
Stirring arrangement of Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning, perfect for prelude, offertory, or other
special service music
“Let the Lower Lights Be Burning” was inspired by a
D.L. Moody sermon. Moody once told a story of a ship
approaching Cleveland Harbor. The lighthouse showed
where the harbor was, but other lights that were
supposed to mark the harbor’s entry (the “lower
lights”) had gone out, due to negligence. Unable to
tell where the danger lay, the pilot ran the ship into
a rock, and many drowned. That inspired the now famous
words of Bliss (“but to us He gives the keeping of
the lights along the shore”—“Some poor fainting,
struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.”)
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