Jesus bids us shine with a pure clear light

Jesus bids us shine with a pure clear light. Anna Bartlett Warner* (1827-1915). This children’s hymn, with its quaint last line of each stanza, ‘You in your small corner, and I in mine’, was first published (July 1868) in The Little Corporal, a monthly religious magazine published in Chicago from 1865 to 1875. It also appeared in The American Sacred Songster (1868) edited by Philip Phillips*. It was published anonymously, which has caused problems of authorship.  In JJ, p. 1580, this hymn was included in the entry on Emily Miller* as her hymn No. 8. This was later corrected (p. 1672) in a note by James Mearns* which reads ‘No. 8, “Jesus bids us shine,” she [Emily Miller] informs us is by...