Brighter Every Day

O my brother, have you started for the heavenly land? (Oatman)

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Tune: [O my brother, have you started for the heavenly land?]
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1 O my brother, have you started for the heavenly land?
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
Are you guided on the journey by the Saviour's hand?
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
As you praise his name with a holy song,
As you linger in his courts to pray,
As you firmly stand in the fight against the wrong,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?

Chorus:
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
Don't you see the light celestial on the way;
All the time that you have striven
On the upward road to heaven,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?

2 As you labor in the vineyard for the Master here,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
As you hear him sweetly whisper words of hope and cheer,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
As you tell the world of a Saviour's love,
As you point men to the narrow way,
As you help some soul on toward that home above,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day? [Chorus]

3 When your spirit feels the breezes from the other shore,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
When you see your dear ones leave you to return no more,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
For they're happy now in that home on high,
All their trials and tears have passed away;
As they watch your course in the journey to the sky,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day? [Chorus]

4 Very soon you'll cross the river to the golden land,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
Very soon you'll live and mingle with that blood-washed band,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day?
Where the Lamb of God is the city's light,
Where night has forever passed away,
And the roadway fair is the blessed path of right,
Don't you find the path grows brighter ev'ry day? [Chorus]

Source: Light in the Valley: a new work of great merit for the Sunday school, revivals, Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, young people's society, and all forward movement along the line of battle... #50

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr.

Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton… Go to person page >

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First Line: O my brother, have you started for the heavenly land? (Oatman)
Title: Brighter Every Day
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Don't you find the path grows brighter every day?
Publication Date: 1898
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

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