I Worship Thee, O Holy Ghost

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1 I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost.
I love to worship Thee.
My risen Lord for aye were lost
But for Thy company.

2 I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost.
I love to worship Thee.
I grieved Thee long, alas! Thou knos'st
It grieves me bitterly.

3 I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost.
I love to worship Thee.
Thy patient love, at what a cost.
At last it conquered me!

4 I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost.
I love to worship Thee.
With Thee each day is Pentecost,
Each night Nativity.

Source: Praise and Worship: hymnal #22

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Author: William Fairfield Warren

Warren, William Fairfield, D.D., was born at Williamsburg, Massachusetts, in 1833, and graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1853. After spending some time in Germany, he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the Methodist Episcopal Mission Institute at Bremen, in 1861. Returning to America in 1866, he held some important appointments there, ultimately becoming President of Boston University, in 1873. His hymn, "I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost" (Whitsuntide), was contributed to the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, at the request of the editorial committee, in 1877, and was published therein in 1878. It has passed into other collections. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost
Title:	I Worship Thee, O Holy Ghost
Author:	William Fairfield Warren
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

MANOAH (Greatorex)

MANOAH was first published in Henry W. Greatorex's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1851). This anthology (later editions had alternate titles) contained one of the best tune collections of its era and included thirty-seven original compositions and arrangements by compiler Greatorex as well as m…

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COOLING (Abbey)

AZMON

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) adapted AZMON from a melody composed by Carl G. Gläser in 1828. Mason published a duple-meter version in his Modern Psalmist (1839) but changed it to triple meter in his later publications. Mason used (often obscure) biblical names for his tune titles; Azmon, a city south of C…

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