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God the Spirit, Guide and Guardian

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Profession of Faith, Ordination, Commissioning, Installation; Commissioning; Confirmation; Empowerment; God Images; Guidance; Holy Spirit Power; Jesus Christ Images of; Ministry; Ordination; Service Music Sending Forth/Commissioning; Trinity; Truth; Wisdom; Word of God Lyrics: 1 God the Spirit, guide and guardian, windsped flame and hovering dove, breath of life and voice of prophets, sign of blessing, power of love: give to those who lead your people fresh anointing of your grace; send them forth as bold apostles to your Church in every place. 2 Christ our Saviour, Sovereign, Shepherd, Word made flesh, Love crucified, teacher, healer, suffering servant, friend of sinners, foe of pride: in your tending may all pastors learn and live a shepherd's care; grant them courage and compassion shown through word and deed and prayer. 3 Great Creator, life-bestower, truth beyond all thought's recall, fount of wisdom, womb of mercy, giving and forgiving all: as you know our strength and weakness, so may those the church exalts oversee its life steadfastly yet not overlook its faults. 4 Triune God, mysterious being, undivided and diverse, deeper than our minds can fathom, greater than our creeds rehearse: help us in our varied callings your full image to proclaim, that our ministries uniting may give glory to your name. Used With Tune: BLAENWERN

Blessed Quietness

Author: Manie Payne Ferguson Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 162 hymnals Topics: God the Spirit Actions First Line: Joys are flowing like a river Refrain First Line: Blessed quietness, holy quietness what assurance in my soul Lyrics: 1 Joys are flowing like a river, since the Comforter has come; He abides with us forever, makes the trusting heart His home. Refrain: Blessed quietness, holy quietness, what assurance in my soul! On the stormy sea He speaks peace to me, how the billows cease to roll! 2 Bringing life and health and gladness, all around this heavenly Guest, banished unbelief and sadness, changed our weariness to rest. [Refrain] 3 Like the rain that falls from heaven, like the sunlight from the sky, so the Comforter is given, coming on us from on high. [Refrain] Used With Tune: BLESSED QUIETNESS

Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire

Author: John Cosin Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 238 hymnals Topics: The Holy Trinity - God the Holy Spirit Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR

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ITALIAN HYMN

Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 1,306 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felice de Giardini Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year Trinity Sunday; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Presence (Holy Spirit); Service Music Doxology; Trinity Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 53121 71123 45432 Used With Text: Come, Thou Almighty King

ST. THEODULPH

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 579 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Melchior Teschner Topics: God the Spirit Pentecost Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 15567 11321 17151 Used With Text: On Pentecost They Gathered

ABERYSTWYTH

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 255 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Parry Topics: The Christian Year Pentecost; Church Dedication of a Building; God Power/Might; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Images; Holy Spirit Movement; Holy Spirit Power; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Renewal; Mission and Outreach; Renewal; Sun; Pentecost Year A Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11234 53213 21712 Used With Text: Wind Who Makes All Winds That Blow

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Come, Teach Us, Spirit of Our God

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #242 (2010) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: God the Spirit Actions Lyrics: 1 Come, teach us, Spirit of our God, the language of Your way, the lessons that we need to live, the faith for every day. 2 Excite our minds to follow You, to trace new truths in store, new flight paths for our spirit space, new marvels to explore. 3 Engage our wits to dance with You, to leap from logic's base, to capture insight on the wing, to sense Your cosmic grace: 4 In spire our spark to light from You, to catch creation's flair, new artistry to celebrate, new harmonies to dare. 5 Delight our hearts to worship You, to learn compassion's code, to live in context of Your love, Great teacher who is God! Languages: English Tune Title: MORNING SONG

God Turned the Spirit Loose in Wind

Author: John Core Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #239 (2010) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: God the Spirit Actions Scripture: Genesis 1:2-3 Languages: English Tune Title: REYNOLDS

Spirit of the Living God

Author: Daniel Iverson Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #234 (2010) Meter: 11.11.8.11 Topics: God the Spirit Actions First Line: Spirit of the living God, fall fresh on me Languages: English Tune Title: IVERSON

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B. B. McKinney

1886 - 1952 Person Name: B.B. McKinney Topics: God the Spirit Actions Arranger of "IVERSON" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Daniel Iverson

1890 - 1977 Topics: God the Spirit Actions Author of "Spirit of the Living God" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Daniel Iverson (b. Brunswick, GA, 1890; d. Asheville, NC, 1977) wrote the first stanza and tune of this hymn after hearing a sermon on the Holy Spirit during an evangelism crusade by the George Stephens Evangelistic Team in Orlando, Florida, 1926. The hymn was sung at the crusade and then printed in leaflets for use at other services. Published anonymously in Robert H. Coleman's Revival Songs (1929) with alterations in the tune, this short hymn gained much popularity by the middle of the century. Since the 1960s it has again been properly credited to Iverson. Iverson studied at the University of Georgia, Moody Bible Institute, Columbia Theological Seminary, and the University of South Carolina. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1914, he served congregations in Georgia and in North and South Carolina. In 1927 he founded the Shenandoah Presbyterian Church in Miami, Florida, and served there until his retirement in 1951. An evangelist as well as a preacher, Iverson planted seven new congregations during his ministry in Miami. --www.hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/424

Benjamin Beddome

1717 - 1795 Person Name: Rev. Benjamin Beddome Topics: The Church on Earth; Divine Election; Grace of God; Holy Spirit; Christ as King; Missions; Nations; Offerings; Perseverance Of The Saints; Christ as Prophet; Regeneration; Sovereignty of God; Total Depravity; Word of God Author of "Shout, for the Blessed Jesus Reigns" in Psalter Hymnal (Red) Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ========================= Beddome, Benjamin , M.A. This prolific hymnwriter was born at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, Jan. 23, 1717, where his father, the Rev. John Beddome, was atthat time Baptist Minister. He was apprenticed to a surgeon in Bristol, but removing to London, he joined, in 1739, the Baptist church in Prescott St. At the call of this church he devoted himself to the work of the Christian ministry, and in 1740 began to preach at Bourton-on-the-Water, in Gloucestershire. Declining invitations to remove to London or elsewhere, he continued pastor at Bourton until his death, on Sep. 3, 1795, at the age of 78. Mr. Beddome was for many years one of the most respected Baptist ministers in the West of England. He was a man of some literary culture. In 1770 he received the degree of M.A. from Providence College, Rhode Island. He was the author of an Exposition of the Baptist Catechism, 1752, in great repute at the time, and reprinted by Dr. C. Evans in 1772. It was his practice to prepare a hymn every week to be sung after his Sunday morning sermon. Though not originally intended for publication, he allowed thirteen of these to appear in the Bristol Baptist Collection of Ash & Evans (1769), and thirty-six in Dr. Rippon's Baptist Selection (1787), whence a number of them found their way into the General Baptist Hymn Book of 1793 and other collections. In 1817, a posthumous collection of his hymns was published, containing 830 pieces, with an introduction by the Rev. Robert Hall, and entitled "Hymns adapted to Public Worship or Family Devotion, now first published from the Manuscripts of the late Rev. B. Beddome, M.A." Preface dated "Leicester, Nov. 10, 1817." Some of the early copies bear the same date on the title page. Copies bearing both the 1817 and 1818 dates are in the British Museum. The date usually given is 1818. Some hymns are also appended to his Sermons, seven volumes of which were published l805—1819; and over twenty are given in the Baptist Register of various dates. Beddome's hymns were commended by Montgomery as embodying one central idea, "always important, often striking, and sometimes ingeniously brought out." Robert Hall's opinion is just, when in his "Recommendatory Preface" to the Hymns, &c, he says, p. vii.:— "The man of taste will be gratified with the beauty and original turns of thought which many of them ex¬hibit, while the experimental Christian will often perceive the most secret movements of his soul strikingly delineated, and sentiments pourtrayed which will find their echo in every heart." With the exception of a few composed for Baptisms and other special occasions, their present use in Great Britain is limited, but in America somewhat extensive. One of the best is the Ordination Hymn, "Father of Mercies, bow Thine ear." Another favourite is “ My times of sorrow and of joy," composed, by a singular coincidence, to be sung on Sunday, Jan. 14, 1778, the day on which his son died, most unexpectedly, in Edinburgh. "Let party names no more," is very popular both in Great Brit, and America. "Faith, His a precious gift," "Witness, ye men and angels, now," and the hymn for Holy Baptism, "Buried beneath the yielding wave," are also found in many collections. Beddome's popularity is, however, now mainly in America. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] Beddome is thus seen to be in common use to the extent of about 100 hymns. In this respect he exceeds every other Baptist hymnwriter; Miss Steele ranking second. The authorities for Beddome's hymns are: (1) A Collection of Hymns adapted to Public Worship, Bristol, W. Pine, 1769, the Collection of Ash & Evans; (2) Dr. Rippon's Selections 1787, and later editions; (3) Sermons printed from the Manuscripts of the late Rev. Benjamin Beddome, M.A.,... with brief Memoir of the Author, Dunstable & Lond., 1805-1819; (4) Dr. Rippon's Baptist Register, 1795, &c.; (5) The Beddome Manuscripts, in the Baptist College, Bristol; (6) and Hymns adapted to Public Worship, or Family Devotion now first published, from Manuscripts of the late Rev. B. Beddome, A.M. With a Recommendatory Preface by the Rev. R. Hall, A.M. Lond., 1817. In his Preface, Mr. Hall gives this account of the Beddome Manuscript:— "The present Editor was entrusted several years ago with the MSS, both in prose and verse, with permission from the late Messrs. S. & B. Beddome, sons of the Author, to publish such parts of them as he might deem proper. He is also indebted to a descendant of the Rev. W. Christian, formerly pastor of the Baptist Church at Sheepshead, Leicestershire, for some of the Author's valuable hymns, which had been carefully preserved in the family. From both these sources, as well as others of less consequence, the present interesting volume has been derived." -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Beddome, Benjamin, pp. 121-124. Other hymns in common use:— 1. Great God, before Thy mercy-seat. (1817). Lent. 2. Great God, oppressed with grief and fear. (1787.) Reading H. Scripture. 3. How glorious is Thy word, 0 God. Holy Scripture. From "When Israel, &c," p. 124, i. 4. In God I ever will rejoice. Morning. From his Hymns, &c, 1817. 5. Jesus, my Lord, divinely fair. (1817.) Jesus the King of Saints. Begins with stanza ii. of “Listen, ye mortals, while I sing." 6. Rejoice, for Christ the Saviour reigns. Missions. Altered form of "Shout, for the blessed, &c," p. 123, ii. 7. Satan, the world, and sin. (1817.) In Temptation. 8. Thou, Lord of all above. (1817.) Lent. 9. Unto Thine altar, Lord. (1787.) Lent. 10. Ye saints of every rank, with joy. (1800.) Public Worship. The dates given above are, 1787 and 1800, Rippon's Selection; and 1817 Beddome's Hymns. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II

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