Let Christian faith and hope dispel (Hay)

Let Christian faith and hope dispel. Granton Douglas Hay* (1943- ). This seven-stanza text, based on Romans 8: 31-39, was written for the Australian Hymn Book (WOV). According to Wesley Milgate*, it was written at the request of the texts committee, which found the original ‘rather wordy and archaic’ (Milgate, 1982, p. 46). It is a reworking of a slightly longer paraphrase in the Scottish Translations and Paraphrases (1781). See ‘Let Christian faith and hope dispel (Logan)*. See also ‘The Saviour died, but rose again’*. Hay’s version is in seven stanzas. In WOV it is preceded by the instruction ‘If a shorter hymn is required, the hymn may be begun at verse 4’. Stanza 4 of Hay’s text begins...