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[Though shadows may cover the face of the day]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Sylvester Fearis Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13333 23565 11222 Used With Text: There's Light for a Step

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Though shadows may cover the face of the day Refrain First Line: There's light for each step of the way Lyrics: 1. Though shadows may cover the face of the day, Though steep be the path that you climb, You never need stumble, you never need stray, There’s light for a step at a time. Refrain There’s light for each step of the way, There’s light for a step at a time; You never need stumble, you never need stray, There’s light for a step at a time. 2. Though mists on the edge of the marshlands lie low, Though narrow the path that is sure; Still light for a step will be yours if you go With tread that is firm and secure. [Refrain] 3. When into the valley the pathway shall lead, Where darkly the Death-River rolls, There still shall be light in your uttermost need, To guide to the mansion of souls. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Though shadows may cover the face of the day]

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There's Light for a Step

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6599 First Line: Though shadows may cover the face of the day Refrain First Line: There's light for each step of the way Lyrics: 1. Though shadows may cover the face of the day, Though steep be the path that you climb, You never need stumble, you never need stray, There’s light for a step at a time. Refrain There’s light for each step of the way, There’s light for a step at a time; You never need stumble, you never need stray, There’s light for a step at a time. 2. Though mists on the edge of the marshlands lie low, Though narrow the path that is sure; Still light for a step will be yours if you go With tread that is firm and secure. [Refrain] 3. When into the valley the pathway shall lead, Where darkly the Death-River rolls, There still shall be light in your uttermost need, To guide to the mansion of souls. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Though shadows may cover the face of the day]

There's Light for a Step

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds Hymnal: The Gospel Hymnal #2 (1899) First Line: Though shadows may cover the face of the day Refrain First Line: There's light for each step of the way Languages: English Tune Title: [Though shadows may cover the face of the day]

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Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Author of "There's Light for a Step" in The Cyber Hymnal Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. S. Fearis

1867 - 1932 Person Name: John Sylvester Fearis Composer of "[Though shadows may cover the face of the day]" in The Cyber Hymnal John Sylvester Fearis, 1867-1932 Born: February 5, 1867, Richland, Iowa. Died: September 2, 1932, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Fearis’ father was a successful singing school teacher, and a painter by trade. At a young age, John learned to read music in his father’s classes. He was passionately fond of music, and, taking lessons on the reed organ, he was soon able to play in Sunday school and church. Later he took charge of the church choir, and taught singing classes in nearby towns. He wrote his first hymn tune at age 16. He eventually joined the editorial staff of the Choir Leader, published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in Dayton, Ohio. Sources-- Choir Herald, December 1932, p. 219 Emurian, p. 17 Hall, pp. 393-4 Lyrics-- Brightly Beams Another Morning Children’s Day Show Me the Way, My Shepherd What Comfort to Our Hearts What Wonderful Love Is the Love Music-- Be Thou Exalted Beautiful Isle of Somewhere God May Call for You Little Raindrops Promise Made to Mother, The Songs in the Night Show Me the Way, My Shepherd There’s Light for a Step Wherever He Leads Me I’ll Go --hymntime.com/tch