Within the darkness of the world The Light of Jesus shines But in this twilight of mankind His Light the earth declines. The beauty that is shining here Within the candle flame Is that which men would seek to quench They do not know His Name. The candlestick we hold today Will show the Light of God And will illuminate the Road To mark the path He trod. His Light is so well known to those Who know His Love within The Light that lightens every man And shows the power of sin. Within the darkness of that sky When man His Light turned out Silent and black was heaven then And many turned to doubt. His resurrection burst the grave With brightness of the sun The newest Life that man could see Had evermore begun. It is His Light, O wondrous Light God's very Nature shows The former darkness He replaced And Love eternal flows. For in that ceasless flow of Blood. Its ceaseless cleansing will Cast glistening rubies in His Light That radiate and fill.
