Scripture Verse

You are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

Introduction

Words & Mu­sic: John B. Sweet, 1912 (🔊 pdf nwc). Ap­peared in Ser­vice Songs, com­piled by Will­iam Shaw & John R. Cle­ments (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Unit­ed So­ci­ety of Chris­tian En­dea­vor, 1913), number 72.

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Sweet (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Out of sin and out of night,
Jesus calls me in­to light,
And He says in words so sweet,
I’ll make life with bliss re­plete,
And the sha­dows shall not fall on you.

Refrain

So this one thing I know,
Where He leads me I’ll go:
There will be no dark sha­dow
Across my road.

And so oft He speaks to me,
And His voice sounds ten­der­ly,
Go not back in­to the night,
Stay with Me in paths of light,
And the shad­ows shall not fall on you.

Refrain

Then some day He’ll call away
To the realms of end­less day,
Oh, the sun­light of His grace!
I shall look in­to His face,
And no sha­dows there will fall on me.

Refrain