ELLERS E. J. HOPKINS IOS. 54 4 4 4 Spirit of God! de scend up on my heart; Wean it from earth,thro' all its pulses move; -༡༡ 355 Stoop to my weak- ness, mighty as Thou art, And make me love Thee as I ought to love. SPIRIT of God! descend upon my heart; Wean it from earth, through all its pulses move; Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art, And make me love Thee as I ought to love. 2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies; No sudden rending of the veil of clay; No angel visitant, no opening skies; But take the dimness of my soul away. 3 Hast Thou not bid us love Thee, God and King? [and mind, All, all Thine own,soul, heart, and strength, STANMORE 75, 5. I see Thy cross, then teach my heart to cling! O, let me seek Thee, and O, let me find! 4 Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. 5 Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love; One holy passion filling all my frame; The baptism of the heaven-descended Dove, My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame! George Croly 1830 356 4 Gracious Spir-it, Holy Ghost, Taught by Thee, we covet most,Of Thy gifts at Pentecost, Holy,heavenly love. GRACIOUS Spirit, Holy Ghost, 2 Love is kind, and suffers long, Love will ever with us stay: 4 Faith will vanish into sight, 5 Faith and hope and love we see And the best, is Love. Christopher Wordsworth 1862 AUSTELL P. M. F. C. MAKER Come, Holy Spirit,come! Mercies revealing; Make this cold heart Thine home;Quicken its feeling: Then shall my song ascend, Breathing glad love, and blend With notes that never end,Thro' heav'n pealing. SINAI C. M. J. BARNBY 359 WHEN God of old came down from heaven, 4 And, as on Israel's awe-struck ear WHY should the children of a King 2 Dost Thou not dwell in all the saints, And show my sins forgiven? 3 Assure my conscience of her part 4 Thou art the earnest of His love, Isaac Watts 1709 361 GREAT Father of each perfect gift, 2 O shed abroad that royal gift, To bless our eyes with sacred light, Our raptured thoughts to heaven. Philip Doddridge 1736 COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all Thy quickening powers, Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. 2 Look how we grovel here below, 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, 4 Dear Lord, and shall we ever live 5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 364 NO TRACK is on the sunny sky, 2 That Upper Room is heaven on earth: Within its precincts lie All that earth has of faith, or hope, 3 One moment-and the Spirit hung 4 The Spirit came into the Church 5 Most tender Spirit, mighty God, If loss of Jesus can be gain, So long as we have Thee! Frederick William Faber 1849 |