
1 Come, Spirit, source of light,
Thy grace is unconfined;
Dispel the gloomy shades of night,
The darkness of the mind.
2 Now to our eyes display
The truth thy words reveal;
Cause us to run the heavenly way,
Delighting in thy will.
3 Thy teaching make us know
The mysteries of thy love,
The vanity of things below,
The joy of things above.
4 While through this maze we stray,
Oh, spread thy beams abroad;
Disclose the dangers of the way,
And guide our steps to God.
Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs, ancient and modern for use in the prayer-meeting #213
First Line: | Come, blessed Spirit, source of light |
Author: | Benjamin Beddome (1818) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 |
Source: | Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818) |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Come, blessed Spirit, Source of light. B. Beddome. [Holy Spirit.] This hymn is given in his Sermons, 1816, vol. iv., and in his (posthumous) Hymns, 1817, No. 136, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and in each instance it is undated. It is found in extensive use in American hymn-books in two forms; first the original, as in Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872 (where it is dated 1770); and 2nd changed from L.M. to S.M. in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849, “Come, Spirit, source of light." [William T. Brooke]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)