I feel the winds of God to-day

I feel the winds of God to-day. Jessie Adams* (1863-1954) [and Frederick John Gillman* (1866-1949)]. The hymn began life as a poem by Adams in 1907 with nine 4-line stanzas. Stanzas 1, 2, 3 and 5 were taken by Gillman and made into two 8-line stanzas, to which he added a further 8-line stanza, printing this text in The Fellowship Hymn Book (1909 edition; Gillman was one of the Secretaries of the Committee). The hymn was printed anonymously (presumably at Adams’s instruction) with a note (see under ‘Jessie Adams*). The omitted verses were: 4. The daybreak winds of that dear morn Where pride no grief can bring, But o’er hearts purged and newly born The Christ-child is the...