Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal ‎#589

589. Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest

1 Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
Hear and grant our heart’s request
For that gift supreme and best:
Holy heav’nly love.

2 Faith that mountains could remove,
Tongues of earth or heaven above,
Knowledge, all things, empty prove
If I have no love.

3 Though I as a martyr bleed,
Give my goods the poor to feed,
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.

4 Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is pure and thinks no wrong,
Love than death it self more strong:
Therefore give us love.

5 Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.

6 Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in hand agree-
But the greatest of the three,
And the best is love.

Text Information

• First Line: Holy Spirit, gracious guest, Hear and grant our heart's request
• Title: Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest
• Author: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)
• Meter: 7.7.7.5.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Scripture:
  1 Corinthians 13
• Topic: Christan Life: Love for One Another

Tune Information

• Name: GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL
• Composer: Grayston Ives (1948- )
• Meter: 7.7.7.5.
• Incipit: 56512 32345 54325
• Key: F Major or modal

Tune Information:

Music printed by permission of Basil Ramsey Publisher of Music Ltd.