The tender light of home behind

The tender light of home behind. Sarah Geraldina Stock* (1838-1898).  First published in the Church of England Zenana Society’s periodical, India’s Women, in September 1887. It was first sung at the Valedictory Meeting of the Society, to say farewell to the out-going missionaries, on 30 September of that year (it may be compared with another hymn by Stock, ‘O Master! when Thou callest’*, sung at the same meeting one year later). It was published in Eight Missionary Hymns and Poems (Church Missionary Society, 1889), and in Stock’s Life Abundant, and other poems, published in 1890. In the latter it had the title ‘”Behind” and “Before” (in Gothic lettering) and the words ‘For “India’s Women,”...