340HYMN CCCXX.
7.7.7.7
James Montgomery
Prayer for Spiritual Light, Holiness, and Peace.
God, o'er all supremely bless'd, God, in Christ made manifest, God, the Spirit, one in three; Make Thy children one with Thee. | Let the glory of Thy face, Let the riches of Thy grace, Let Thine influence benign, Sanctify and seal us Thine. | Thou art power, and love, and light, By that threefold cord unite All our schools, with large increase, In Thy covenant of peace. | Then the living, year by year, Shall recruit our numbers here, And our dying friends supply Fresh accessions to the sky. | Till, at mortal life's last stage, Time himself shall die of age, Death dethroned, lay down his head In that grave where lay his dead. | Thence may we, in that dread hour, Rescued from the tyrant's power, With thy saints arise, and sing Christ, Death's Conqueror, Christ Our King. | |