O Spirit of the living God, In all Thy plenitude of grace, Where’er the foot of man hath trod, Descend on our apostate race. 2. Give tongues of fire and hearts of love To preach the reconciling Word; Give power and unction from above Where’er the joyful sound is heard. 3. Be darkness, at Thy coming, light; Confusion—order, in Thy path; Souls without strength inspire with might; Bid mercy triumph over wrath. 4. O Spirit of the Lord, prepare A sinful world their God to meet; Breathe Thou abroad like morning air Till hearts of stone begin to beat. 5. Baptize the nations; far and nigh The triumphs of the Cross record; The name of Jesus glorify Till every kindred call Him Lord. 6. God from eternity hath willed All flesh shall His salvation see; So be the Father’s love fulfilled, The Savior’s sufferings crowned through Thee. James Montgomery, 1825. 474 7, 6, 8 l From Greenland’s icy mountains, From India’s coral strand, Where Afric’s sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error’s chain. 2. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle, Though every prospect pleases And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3. Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high,— Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Salvation, O salvation! The joyful sound proclaim Till earth’s remotest nation Has learned Messiah’s name. 4. Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole; Till o’er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign. Reginald Heber, 1819. 475 L. M. O Christ, our true and only Light, Enlighten those who sit in night; Let those afar now hear Thy voice And in Thy fold with us rejoice. 2. Fill with the radiance of Thy grace The souls now lost in error’s maze And all whom in their secret minds Some dark delusion haunts and blinds. 3. And all who else have strayed from Thee, O gently seek! Thy healing be To every wounded conscience given And let them also share Thy heaven. 4. O make the deaf to hear Thy Word And teach the dumb to speak, dear Lord, Who dare not yet the faith avow, Though secretly they hold it now.