Let the Lower Lights Be Burning by Philip Paul Bliss Mt 5:16 LOWER LIGHTS—Philip Paul Bliss Let the Lower Lights Be Burning (or Lower Lights; Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy) 1 Brightly beams our Father’s mercy From His lighthouse evermore, But to us He gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore. 2 Dark the night of sin has settled, Loud the angry billows roar; Eager eyes are watching, longing For the lights along the shore. 3 Trim your feeble lamp, my brother! Some poor sailor, tempest