Lord God the Holy Ghost

Lord God the Holy Ghost. James Montgomery* (1771-1854). First printed in the 8th Edition of Thomas Cotterill*’s Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use (1819) in three 8-line stanzas. It was entitled ‘Whit Sunday’, and in its short compass it mentions many of the attributes of the Holy Spirit: power, grace, the rushing wind, the tongues of fire, light, truth, and the spirit of adoption. It was reprinted with alterations in Montgomery’s The Christian Psalmist (Glasgow, 1825) and in his Original Hymns (1853), with the title ‘The Descent of the Spirit: Acts 2: 1-4’. It was printed in the Supplement (1889) to the Second Edition of A&M in six stanzas of Short Metre, now the...