Holy Spirit, ever dwelling

Holy Spirit, ever dwelling. Timothy Rees* (1874-1939). From The Mirfield Mission Hymn-Book (Mirfield, 1922), where the date of composition was given as 1922, and in John Lambert Rees’s Sermons and Hymns by Timothy Rees, Bishop of Llandaff (1946). It was written in four 8-line stanzas, but it was shortened to three in Sermons and Hymns. The original stanza 4 was: Holy Spirit, fount and channel Of the sevenfold gifts of grace, May we in our hearts for ever Give to holy fear a place. Fill our lives, O Lord, with worship, As with service gladly done; Bend our souls in adoration Of the eternal Three in One. CH3 and RS shortened the hymn even more: CH3 printed stanzas 2 and 3...