Spirit of mercy, truth, and love
Spirit of mercy, truth, and love. Foundling Hospital Collection (1774).
This hymn for Whitsunday was published without an author’s name in Psalms, Hymns & Anthems. Used in the Chapel of the Hospital for the Maintenance & Education of Exposed & Deserted Young Children (1774) (see ‘London hospitals and their hymns’*). There are minor textual disagreements about the wording of the first printing (see JJ, p. 1075 and Frost, 1962, p. 226). The text printed in JJ is as follows:
Spirit of mercy, truth, and love!Shed Thy sweet influence from above,And still from age to age conveyThe wonders of this sacred day.
In ev’ry clime, by ev’ry tongue,Be God’s amazing glory sung;Through all the...
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