Fire of God, undying flame

Fire of God, undying flame. Albert Frederick Bayly* (1901-1984). Written in 1947 as ‘Fire of God, thou sacred flame’, ‘to voice the more powerful aspects of the Holy Spirit’, recalling that it is manifest as Fire, Breath, Strength, Truth and Love (the opening words of the stanzas). It was published in Rejoice 0 People (1950), the author’s first collection of hymns. He made slight changes in the language before its reprint in his Rejoice Together (1982). It has since appeared in a number of books in the USA: The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), The New Century Hymnal (The United Church of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio, 1995), RitualSong (The Roman Catholic Church, 1996), and others. It was...