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O Breath of Life
Author: Bessie Porter Head Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 50 hymnals First Line: O Breath of life, come sweeping through us Lyrics: 1 O Breath of life, come sweeping through us,
revive your church with life and power.
O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
and fit your church to meet this hour.
2 O Wind of God, come bend us, break us,
till humbly we confess our need.
Then in your tenderness remake us;
revive, restore, for this we plead.
3 O Breath of love, come breathe within us,
renewing thought and will and heart.
Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us;
revive your church in every part.
Topics: Body of Christ; Brokenness; Church; Cleansing; Confession; Hearts; Human Needs; Plea; Power and Might; Reform; Renewal; Restoration; Revive; Service Music Confession; Tenderness; Thoughts; Victory; Human Will; Body of Christ; Brokenness; Christian Year and Observances Pentecost; Church; Cleansing; Confession; Hearts; Human Needs; Plea; Power and Might; Reform; Renewal; Restoration; Revive; Service Music Confession; Tenderness; Thoughts; Victory; Human Will Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Used With Tune: ADIEU
O Breath of Life
Into the hands
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Into the hands that blessed the children Used With Tune: ADIEU
Into the hands
Into the hands
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Hope is our Song #78 (2009) First Line: Into the hands that blessed the children Tune Title: ADIEU
Into the hands
Into the hands that blessed the children
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #737 (2011) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Topics: Death, Judgement and Eternal Life Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 Languages: English Tune Title: ADIEU
Into the hands that blessed the children
O Breath of Life
Author: Bessie Porter Head Hymnal: Worship and Song #3146 (2011) Meter: 9.8.9.8 First Line: O Breath of life, come sweeping through us Lyrics: 1 O Breath of life, come sweeping through us,
revive your church with life and power.
O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
and fit your church to meet this hour.
2 O Wind of God, come bend us, break us,
till humbly we confess our need.
Then in your tenderness remake us;
revive, restore, for this we plead.
3 O Breath of love, come breathe within us,
renewing thought and will and heart.
Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us;
revive your church in every part.
Topics: Body of Christ; Brokenness; Church; Cleansing; Confession; Hearts; Human Needs; Plea; Power and Might; Reform; Renewal; Restoration; Revive; Service Music Confession; Tenderness; Thoughts; Victory; Human Will; Body of Christ; Brokenness; Christian Year and Observances Pentecost; Church; Cleansing; Confession; Hearts; Human Needs; Plea; Power and Might; Reform; Renewal; Restoration; Revive; Service Music Confession; Tenderness; Thoughts; Victory; Human Will Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Languages: English Tune Title: ADIEU
O Breath of Life
Shirley Erena Murray
1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931 Author of "Into the hands that blessed the children" in Singing the Faith Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing.
I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago
Shirley Erena Murray
Bessie Porter Head
1850 - 1936 Author of "O Breath of Life" in Worship and Song [Elizabeth Ann Porter Head]
Head, Elizabeth Ann (`Bessie'; née Porter)
b. Belfast: 1850
d. Wimbledon, Surrey: 28 June 1936
She was the youngest daughter of Tobias Porter, manager of John Alexander's flour mill in Belfast. Of her early life nothing is known; but in 1894 she became secretary of the YWCA in Swansea. She then served with the South Africa General Mission from 1897-1907, mostly in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg, helping to found several branches of the YWCA.
With the chairman of the Mission and a fellow missionary she toured North America in 1906-7; her intended return to South Africa in November 1907 was cancelled in favour of marriage, on 17 December, to the chairman, Albert Alfred Head (1844-1928), a wealthy - and generous - insurance underwriter who had been widowed three years previously.
With her husband she continued actively to support both the SAGM and the Keswick Convention, with which the mission was closely associated. She was a frequent speaker for both organizations and a prolific contributor, in prose and in verse, to their publications.
A collection of her writings, Heavenly Places, & Other Messages, was published in 1920.
Invariably known as Bessie Porter before her marriage, she later styled herself Bessie Porter Head. After her husband's death in 1928 she moved into the SAGM house in Wimbledon, where she died.
--www.canamus.org/Enchiridion
Bessie Porter Head
