Light of Life

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O Lord, Thy word to me is sweet

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Tune: [O Lord, Thy word to me is sweet]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 O Lord, Thy word to me is sweet,
A lamp to guide my wayward feet,
A light to shine my path along,
And makes my heart break forth in song.

Chorus:
Oh, Light of life, oh Guide Divine,
With joy I place my hand in Thine,
Be Thou my Guide, be Thou my Stay,
And keep me in the narrow way.

2 Word after word, and line on line,
Thy precepts ‘round my heart entwine;
A bounteous feast of living bread,
My hungry soul is daily fed. [Chorus]

3 A comfort sweet in sorest need,
A Friend of friends art Thou indeed,
A staff of life on Thee I lean,
Nor even death shall come between. [Chorus]

Source: Gems and Jewels #80

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Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018) Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Lord, Thy word to me is sweet
Title:	Light of Life
Author:	Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, Light of life, O Guide Divine
Copyright:	Public Domain