The Holy Ghost is Here

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The Holy Ghost is here, Where saints in prayer agree

Author: C. H. Spurgeon
Published in 50 hymnals

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	A Treasury of Hymn Settings, Volume 2

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1 The Holy Ghost is here,
Where saints in prayer agree;
As Jesus' parting gift,--is near
Each pleading company.

2 Not far away is he,
To be by prayer brought nigh,
But here in present majesty
As in his courts on high.

3 He dwells within our soul,
An ever welcome guest;
He reigns with absolute control,
As monarch in the breast.

4 Our bodies are his shrine,
And he the indwelling Lord;
All hail, thou Comforter divine,
Be evermore adored!

5 Obedient to thy will,
We wait to feel thy power,
O Lord of life, our hopes fulfill,
And bless this hallowed hour.

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient & modern (Abr. ed.) #247

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Author: C. H. Spurgeon

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, the world-famous preacher, was born June 19, 1834, at Kelvedon, in Essex, where his father was Congregational minister. He was educated at Colchester, and at an Agricultural College at Maidstone, after which he was for a few years usher in schools at Newmarket and Cambridge. In 1851 he became minister of a small Baptist church at Waterbeach, near Cambridge, and soon attained great popularity. In 1854 he removed to New Park Street, London, the place where Drs. Gill and Rippon had formerly ministered, and ere long the thronging of people to hear him led, first, to the temporary occupation of Exeter Hall, and of the Surrey Music Hall, and then to the erection of the great Metropolitan Tabernacle, where he still minist… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The Holy Ghost is here, Where saints in prayer agree
Title:	The Holy Ghost is Here
Author:	C. H. Spurgeon
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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BOYLSTON

ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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