484. Pour out Your Spirit from on high

1 Pour out Your Spirit from on high;
Lord, Your ordained servants bless;
graces and gifts to each supply,
and clothe Your priests with righteousness.

2 Within the temple when they stand
to teach the gospel full and free,
Saviour, like stars in Your right hand
the angels of the churches be.

3 Wisdom and zeal and faith impart,
firmness with meekness, from above,
to bear Your people on their heart,
and love the souls You hold in love.

4 To watch and pray and never faint,
by day and night strict guard to keep,
to warn the sinner, cheer the saint,
nourish Your lambs and feed Your sheep.

5 Then when their work is finished here,
in humble hope their work is done,
when the Chief Shepherd shall appear,
in Him may they and we be one.

Text Information
First Line: Pour out Your Spirit from on high
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 (alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Source: Alt.: Compilers
Tune Information
Name: MAINZER
Composer: Joseph Mainzer, 1801-1851
Meter: LM
Key: C Major
Source: Mainzer's Choruses, 1841; Harm. Compilers of Church Hymnary, 1898



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