When through the whirl of wheels and engines humming

When through the whirl of wheels and engines humming. Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy* (1883-1929). Written for the Industrial Christian Fellowship, for which the author worked as a ‘Messenger’ from 1922 until his death. It was first published in 1925 as a Fellowship leaflet and reprinted in Studdert-Kennedy’s The Unutterable Beauty (1927) with the title ‘Then will he come’. The tune LOMBARD STREET, written for it by F.G. Russell, who set several of Studdert-Kennedy’s poems to music, was issued in sheet form for the Industrial Christian Fellowship and later published in Hymnal for Canadian Youth (1929). Other tunes are also sometimes used. The hymn appeared in SofPE (1931), and a small...