Cleanse and Illume and Fill

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O Holy Ghost arise, Thy temple fill

Author: Adoniram J. Gordon
Tune: GOTTLIEB (Maker)
Published in 9 hymnals

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1 O holy Ghost! arise,
Thy temple fill:
With cleansing fire baptize
My yielded will.

2 Breath from above, refine
My waiting heart:
Impulse and pow’r divine
To me impart.

3 Thou very Light of light,
Poured from on high,
Kindly with vision bright
Mine inward eye.

4 Cleanse, and illume, and fill—
It shall be so:
Then send me where Thou will,
And I will go.

Source: The Voice of Thanksgiving No. 2 #155

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Author: Adoniram J. Gordon

Gordon, Adoniram Judson, D.D., born at New Hampton, N.H., Apr. 19, 1836. Graduated at Brown University, 1860; entered the Baptist ministry; Pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, 1869; and died in 1895. He published The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book, 1872; and was one of the editors of the Service of Song for Baptist Churches, 1871. His hymns in common use include:— 1. O blessed Paraclete. [Holy Spirit .] Given in Sursum Corda, 1898, as having been written in 1890. 2. O Spirit's anointing, for service appointing . [Foreign Missions.] This hymn was "written in the summer of 1886, at Northfield School for Bible Study, organised by Mr. Moody. More than one hundred college students connected with this s… Go to person page >

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