Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers

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Spirit divine, attend our prayers

Author: Andrew Reed (1829)
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1 Spirit divine, attend our prayer,
And make this house your home;
Descend with all your gracious pow'r;
O come, great Spirit, come!

2 Come as the light; to us reveal
Our emptiness and woe,
And lead us in those paths of life
Where all the righteous go.

3 Come as the fire and purge our hearts
Like sacrificial flame;
Let our whole soul an off'ring be
To our Redeemer's name.

4 Come as the dove, and spread your wings,
The wings of peaceful love;
And let your Church on earth become
Blest as the Church above.

5 Spirit divine, attend our prayer;
Make a lost world your home;
Descend with all your gracious pow'r;
O come, great Spirit, come!

Source: One in Faith #654

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Author: Andrew Reed

Reed, Andrew, D.D., son of Andrew Reed, was born in London on Nov. 27, 1787, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Hackney College, London. He was first the pastor of the New Road Chapel, St. George's-in-the-East, and then of the Wycliffe Chapel, which was built through his exertions in 1830. His degree was conferred by Yule College, America. He died Feb. 25, 1862. As the founder of "The London Orphan Asylum," "The Asylum for Fatherless Children," “The Asylum for Idiots” "The Infant Orphan Asylum," and "The Hospital for Incurables," Dr. Reed is more fully known, and will be longer remembered than by his literary publications. His Hymn Book was the growth of years. The preparation began in 1817, when he published a Supplement… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Spirit divine, attend our prayers
Title:	Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers
Author:	Andrew Reed (1829)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Year A, Lent, Fifth Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Lent, Fifth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407.
Year A, Easter season, Easter Vigil
Year A, Easter season, Sixth Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Easter season, Sixth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #617.
Year A, Easter season, Sixth Sunday
Related to John 14 (NPM)
Year A, Easter season, Day of Pentecost
This is recommended for Year A, Easter season, Day of Pentecost by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #617.
Year A, Easter season, Day of Pentecost
Related to Acts 2 (NPM)
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 10 (15)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 10 (15) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #617.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 12 (17)
Year B, Epiphany season, Baptism of the Lord (First Sunday)
Year B, Easter season, Day of Pentecost
This is recommended for Year B, Easter season, Day of Pentecost by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #617.
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 15 (20)
This is recommended for Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 15 (20) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407.
Year C, Easter season, Day of Pentecost
This is recommended for Year C, Easter season, Day of Pentecost by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #407 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #617.

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Scripture References:
st. 1 = Rom. 8:26, Eph. 3:16
st. 2 = John 16:13
st. 3 = Ps. 51:10-12, Ezek. 36:26, Acts 2:2-3

Although the text was written by Andrew Reed (b. St. Clement Danes, London, England, 1787; d. Hackney, London, 1862), it was published anonymously in the Evangelical Magazine, June 1829, with the heading "Hymn to the Spirit, Sung on the late Day appointed for solemn Prayer and Humiliation." The "late Day" referred to Good Friday of that year, which had been set aside by the Congregational clergy of London for prayer for "the renewal of religion in the British churches." The original text began "Spirit divine, attend our prayers" and had seven stanzas (st. 7 was a virtual repeat of st. 1), His stanzas 1-3 and 6 are included in modernized form.

The text begins with a prayer for the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts (st. 1). It then uses the metaphors of light, fire, and the dove to enable us to see the Spirit's work more clearly: "Come as the light" is a prayer for illumination (st. 2); "Come as the fire" is a prayer for cleansing (st. 3); and "Come as the dove" is a prayer for peace and unity (st. 4).

The son of a watchmaker, Reed entered that profession until he felt a call to the ministry. Educated at Hackney College, London, he became a Congregational minister in 1811. He served a flourishing congregation in St. George's-in-the-East, London (later named Wycliffe Chapel), until his retirement in 1861. Known for his administrative skills, Reed founded various charitable institutions such as the London Orphan Asylum, the Asylum for Fatherless Children, the Royal Hospital for Incurables, the Infant Orphan Asylum, and the Asylum for Idiots. He published a Supplement (1817) to Isaac Watts' (PHH 155) hymns, which was enlarged in 1825 and called The Hymn Book; it included twenty-one hymn texts by Reed and twenty anonymous texts by Reed's wife (not properly credited until the Wycliffe Chapel Supplement of 1872), In 1842 Reed issued The Hymn Book, a compilation of his hymns as well as those by Watts and others.

Liturgical Use:
Pentecost; other services of prayer for the work of the Holy Spirit.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook
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Spirit Divine, attend our prayer. A. Reed. [Whitsuntide.] This hymn appeared, unsigned, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, in the Evangelical Magazine for June 1829, with the heading, "Hymn to the Spirit. Sung on the late Day appointed for solemn Prayer and Humiliation in the Eastern District of the Metropolis". From the April number of the same magazine we find that the "Day appointed for Solemn Prayer," &c, was the Good Friday of that year, and that it was "cordially recommended . . . " as a day of humiliation and prayer, with a view to promote, by the divine blessing, a revival of religion in the British churches," by the Board of Congregational Ministers, resident in and about London, whose recommendation is dated "Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1829." The hymn was republished in Dr. Reed's Hymn Book, 1842; and again, in the Wyliffe Chapel Supply 1872. It is the most widely known of Dr. Reed's hymns, and is in extensive use. It is one of his best productions.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Spirit Divine, attend our prayer, p. 1074, ii. The form of this hymn most generally adopted in modern American collections is that rewritten by S. Longfellow, and I included in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. It is No. 67 in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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NUN DANKET ALL (Crüger 16512)

Composed by Johann Crüger (PHH 42) as a setting for Paul Gerhardt's "Nun danket all’ und bringet Ehr," GRÄFENBERG was first published in the 1647 edition of Crüger's Praxis Pietatis Melica. The tune is arbitrarily named after a water-cure spa in Silesia, Austria, which became famous in the 1820…

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