Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy

Enjoy this peaceful, almost sentimental, new setting of Philip Paul Bliss’s popular Christian hymn arranged by Garrett Breeze.  The multiple voicings make it accessible for any ensemble, and a piano version of the accompaniment is available for performances where organ is not an option.

Difficulty: Easy

Voicing: SATB, SSA, TTB, and Two-Part

Accompaniment: Organ (Piano accompaniment available HERE)

Lyrics:

Brightly beams our Father’s mercy from His lighthouse ever more, but to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore. Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave. Some poor fainting, struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.

Dark the night of sin has settled, loud the angry billows roar. Eager eyes are watching, long-ing, for the lights along the shore.

Trim your feeble lamp, my neighbor; some poor sailor, tempest tossed, trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost. Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave. Some poor fainting, struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.

Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave. Some poor fainting, struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.