The Light Divine
Author: Matilda Watts Cahoon
Composer: Mildred Tanner Pettit
Languages (45)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Drita Hyjnore
- Bulgarian: Божествена светлина
- Cebuano: Balaang Kahayag
- Croatian: Svjetlo nebesko
- Czech: Božské světlo
- Danish: Guds strålekrans
- Dutch: Het Licht van God
- English: The Light Divine
- English Braille: ⠠⠮ ⠠⠇⠊⠣⠞ ⠠⠙⠊⠧⠔⠑
- Estonian: Taevavalgus
- Fijian: Rarama Ni Kalou
- Finnish: Valoa Isän Jumalan
- French: Na Roto i te Maramarama o te Fatu
- French (French Polynesia): Na Roto i te Maramarama o te Fatu
- German: Das Licht des Herrn
- Greek: Φως θεϊκό
- Hmong: Qhov Kaj Los Saum Ntuj Los
- Hungarian: Atyánk, drága szent fényed
- Icelandic: Nú brosir sólin
- Indonesian: Terang Allah
- Italian: La luce del Signor
- Japanese: 神の光受け
- Japanese (Hiragana): 神の光受け
- Japanese (Kanji): 神の光受け
- Kekchi: Lix saqenkil li Dios
- Khmer (Cambodian): ពន្លឺនៃព្រះ
- Korean: 거룩하신 주님의 빛
- Latvian: Dievišķā gaisma
- Lithuanian: Dieviška šviesa
- Mandarin (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Guds klare lys
- Polish: Światłość Boga
- Portuguese: A Luz de Deus
- Romanian: Lumina divină
- Russian: Божественный свет
- Samoan: Le Sulu o le Atua
- Spanish: La luz de Dios
- Spanish Braille: ⠠⠇⠁ ⠇⠥⠵ ⠙⠑ ⠠⠙⠊⠕⠎
- Swedish: Guds helga ljus
- Tagalog: Ilaw na Banal
- Tahitian: Na Roto i te Maramarama o te Fatu
- Thai: แสงสวรรค์
- Tongan: Ko e Maama Faka-ʻOtuá
- Ukrainian: Світло віри
- Vietnamese: Ánh Sáng Thiêng Liêng
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1933 or earlier.
Public domain (not renewed)
Earliest known source: The Children’s Friend (August 1933).
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net:
The Children’s Friend (1902–1970), Aug 1933.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. The light of God rests on the faceOf brook and flow’r and treeAnd kindles in our happy heartsThe hope of things to be.
Father, let thy light divineShine on us, we pray.Touch our eyes that we may see;Teach us to obey.Ours the sacred mission isTo bear thy message far.The light of faith is in our hearts,Truth our guiding star.
2. The light of faith abides withinThe heart of ev’ry child;Like buds that wait for blossoming,It grows with radiance mild.
Father, let thy light divineShine on us, we pray.Touch our eyes that we may see;Teach us to obey.Ours the sacred mission isTo bear thy message far.The light of faith is in our hearts,Truth our guiding star.
3. Today thine unseen purposesBy faith’s rare light we feel.Dear Father, make us pure in heart;To us thy will reveal.
Father, let thy light divineShine on us, we pray.Touch our eyes that we may see;Teach us to obey.Ours the sacred mission isTo bear thy message far.The light of faith is in our hearts,Truth our guiding star.
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