Lord of light, whose name outshineth

Lord of light, whose name outshineth. Howell Elvet Lewis* (1860-1953). Written when Lewis was the minister of the Welsh Tabernacle in London for the Congregational Hymnary (1916). Lewis was one of the editors of that book. It appeared with the quotation ‘Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth’ (Luke 11: 2). The hymn appeared in RCH and CP. In the Companion to CP (1953), Lewis was quoted as saying that the hymn was written as a complementary hymn to one by Charlotte Elliott*, ‘to declare that in doing God’s will active co-operation is as much needed as humble resignation’: Charlotte Elliott in her hymn ‘My God, my Father, while I stray’ had expressed the latter thought beautifully. My...