3 When our days of toil shall cease,
Waiting still for sweet release,
Nothing left but heaven and prayer,
Wondering if our names were there;
Wading deep the dismal flood,
Pleading nought but Jesus’ blood,
Whisper softly, wanderer come! 
Follow me, I’ll guide thee home.

     M.M.  Wells.

172 Pleyel. 7s.

The Holy Spirit in Conversion. (383)

Gracious Spirit, love divine,
  Let thy light within me shine;
All my guilty fears remove,
  Fill me full of heaven and love.

2 Speak thy pardoning grace to me,
  Set the burdened sinner free;
Lead me to the Lamb of God,
  Wash me in his precious blood.

3 Life and peace to me impart! 
  Seal salvation on my heart;
Breathe thyself into my breast,
  Earnest of immortal rest.

4 Let me never from thee stray,
  Keep me in the narrow way;
Fill my soul with joy divine,
  Keep me, Lord, forever thine.

     John Stocker, 1776.

173 Zephyr.  L.M.

The Descent of the Spirit. (375)

Spirit of pow’r, and truth, and love,
Who sitt’st enthroned in light above! 
Descend, and bear us on thy wings,
Far from these low and fleeting things.

2 ’Tis thine the wounded soul to heal, ’Tis thine to make the hardened feel; Thine to give light to blinded eyes, And bid the groveling spirit rise.

3 When faith is weak, and courage fails, When grief or doubt our soul assails, Who can, like thee, our spirits cheer?  Great Comforter! be ever near.

4 Come, Holy Spirit! like the fire; With burning zeal our souls inspire; Come, like the south-wind, breathing balm, Our joys refresh, our passions calm.

5 Come, like the sun’s enlightening beam; Come like the cooling, cleansing stream; With all thy graces present be:—­ Spirit of God! we wait for thee.

     William Lindsay Alexander, 1867.

174 Whitefield.  S.M.

The Spirit’s Sanctifying Influence. (378)

Come, Holy Spirit, come;
  Let thy bright beams arise,
Dispel the sorrow from our minds,
  The darkness from our eyes.

2 Revive our drooping faith,
  Our doubts and fears remove,
And kindle in our breasts the flame
  Of never dying love.

3 ’Tis thine to cleanse the heart,
  To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life in ev’ry part,
  And new create the whole.

4 Dwell, Spirit, in our hearts;
  Our minds from bondage free. 
Then shall we know, and praise, and love,
  The Father, Son, and thee.

     Joseph Hart, 1759.

175 Fill Me Now. 8s & 7s.

The Fullness of the Spirit.

Hover o’er me, Holy Spirit;
  Bathe my trembling heart and brow;
Fill me with thy hallowed presence,
  Come, oh, come and fill me now.