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Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Author: Anon Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: We read of scribes and pharisees Used With Tune: [We read of scribes and pharisees]
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
[We read of scribes and pharisees]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 53321 13213 32131 Used With Text: Christians, Hold Out Your Light
[We read of scribes and pharisees]
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Author: Anon; R. E. W. Hymnal: Pentecostal Jewels #33 (1945) First Line: We read of scribes and pharisees Lyrics: 1 We read of scribes and pharisees
Who sit in Moses’ seat,
Who are partial in the Word of God,
But their works are not complete.
Chorus:
Christians, hold out your light,
Christians, hold out your light,
Christians, hold out your light,
Hold out the light of God.
2 They are in the door of heav’n,
They keep the sinners out,
They ridicule the blood-washed child,
Who has a right to shout. [Chorus]
3 But stand back, ye professors,
Who say you are doing right,
For while you are having your dark hour,
I’m a walking in the light. [Chorus]
4 If you want to be called Christian,
Hold out the heav’nly light,
Don’t claim your Savior all day long,
And put Him off at night. [Chorus]
5 You can hide your crimes from people,
Deceive the Christian men,
But God can see you the darkest night,
And remember all of your sin. [Chorus]
6 You go to all these frolics,
Which makes your religion cold,
These no harm sins I’m telling you about,
Will cause you to lose your soul. [Chorus]
7 There are many cold professors,
Who live without the power,
And think by and by when death comes along,
They’ll get a heavenly shower. [Chorus]
8 Today is the day of salvation,
If you are going to go with me,
You must crucify the fallen man,
And Christ will set you free. [Chorus]
9 These moral Christians will not do,
Who will their religion hide,
For in my Father’s house above
They are wholly sanctified. [Chorus]
10 O get the pure religion,
And help to praise the Lord,
Hold out the heav’nly light of God,
For the lukewarm way is hard. [Chorus]
11 No sin can enter heaven,
Nor those who are defiled,
You must be cleansed from ev’ry sin
And become as a little child. [Chorus]
12 If you are a sinning Christian,
God’s word refuse to know,
Then by and by on the judgment day,
You’ll reap whatever you sow. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [We read of scribes and pharisees]
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Author: Anon Hymnal: Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete #33 (1912) First Line: We read of scribes and pharisees Languages: English Tune Title: [We read of scribes and pharisees]
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Songs of the Kingdom #119 (1911) First Line: We read of scribes and pharisees Languages: English Tune Title: [We read of scribes and pharisees]
Christians, Hold Out Your Light
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon Author of "Christians, Hold Out Your Light" in Pentecostal Jewels In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
R. E. Winsett
1876 - 1952 Person Name: R. E. W. Author (last 2 stanzas) of "Christians, Hold Out Your Light" in Pentecostal Jewels Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music.
Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899.
He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory.
He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day).
Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children.
Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame.
--www.wikipedia.org
R. E. Winsett
