Spirit of the living God

Spirit of the living God. Daniel Iverson* (1890-1977). This one-verse song was written and composed in February 1926, after Iverson had been inspired by an address on the Holy Spirit at Orlando, Florida. It was printed in leaflet form, and then, without permission, in Revival Songs (Dallas, 1929) edited by Robert H. Coleman*. In 1937 Baylus B. McKinney* included that version with slight changes under his name as arranger in his Songs of Victory. This version entered the 1956 Baptist Hymnal and other evangelical collections. Through the efforts of E. Powell Lee, Iverson's name was restored as the author in early 1960 printings of the Baptist Hymnal (Reynolds, 1975, p. 199). It originally...