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The Bishop's Hymns - VI

Ridley Hall Chapel

“On Him: From Him: By Him.”


Hail, glorious Head of all Thine own,

Our equal cause of peace and power!

Thou for our sins didst once atone,

Thou art our life of life this hour.


On Thee were our transgressions laid,

On Thee the Law’s pure lightnings shed;

The members’ debt of doom was paid

By unknown sufferings of the Head.


And now in toil, temptation, strife,

Still from their Head’s exhaustless well

The members draw new streams of life,

The world, the flesh, the fiend to quell.


Deep through the springs of mind and soul

Thee the great Comforter inspires;

Thy sovereign thoughts our thought control,

Thy love our love divinely fires.


To know, to do the Head’s commands –

For this the Body lives and grows:

All speed of feet and skill of hands

For Thee is spent, and from Thee flows.


Then, Lord, in strong communion still

Oh, faster bind us to be free;

Thou working out by us Thy will,

We working out Thy will by Thee!

H.C.G.M.

Oct., 1885


Thanks for the picture, Jeremy.

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