You are My witnesses.
Isaiah 43:10
Words: Alice M. Batchelder, in Gems and Jewels, by James Fillmore & James H. Rosecrans (Cincinnati, Ohio: Fillmore Brothers, 1890), number 32.
Music: James H. Fillmore (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Batchelder (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels), or a better one of Fillmore,
Tell me, brother, worn and weary,
Toiling o’er life’s pathway dim,
Are you shedding light for Jesus,
Are you witnessing for Him?
Are you seeking for the sinners,
Those whom Jesus died to win?
Are you pointing to the fountain
That can wash away their sin?
Refrain
Tell me, brother, worn and weary,
Toiling o’er life’s pathway dim;
Are you shedding light for Jesus?
Are you witnessing for Him?
Are you watching by the wayside
For the fainting ones who fall?
Do you take them to the Savior,
Who has promised rest for all?
Do you love to tell of Jesus
More than all the world beside?
Does it bring a heav’nly blessing
With God’s people to abide?
Refrain
Have you made a consecration
Of your time and earthly store?
Have you placed them on the altar?
Then the Master asks no more.
Thus, O Christian, may we journey,
Showing forth the Savior’s praise,
With our lamps all bright and burning,
That the world may catch their rays.
Refrain