O Spirit of the Living God (Montgomery)

O Spir­it of the liv­ing God!

In all Thy ple­ni­tude of grace

Where’er the foot of man hath trod

Descend on our apos­tate race.

Give tongues of fire and hearts of love

To preach the re­con­cil­ing Word

Give pow­er and unc­tion from ab­ove

Whene’er the joy­ful sound is heard.

Be dark­ness

at Thy com­ing

light;

Confusion

or­der in Thy path;

Souls with­out strength in­spire with might;

Bid mer­cy tri­umph ov­er wrath.

O Spir­it of the Lord! pre­pare

All the round earth her God to meet;

Breathe Thou abroad like morn­ing air

Till hearts of stone be­gin to beat.

Baptize the na­tions; far and nigh

The tri­umphs of the cross re­cord;

The name of Je­sus glo­ri­fy

Till ev­ery kin­dred call Him Lord.

God from eter­ni­ty hath willed

All flesh shall His sal­va­tion see;

So be the Fa­ther’s love ful­filled

The Sav­ior’s suf­fer­ings crowned

through Thee.