HYMN DAY! I suppose technically this isn’t a hymn, but it’s a song my parents sang with another couple as a quartet when I was a teenager and it’s always stuck with me. “Come, Holy Spirit” by John Peterson is powerful! And exactly what we need.

The Holy Spirit came at Pentecost
He came in mighty fullness then
His witness through believers won the lost
And multitudes were born again

The early Christians scattered o’er the world
They preached the gospel fearlessly
Tho’ some were martyred and to lions hurled
They marched along in victory

Chorus
Come, Holy Spirit, dark is the hour
We need your filling
Your love and your mighty power
Move now among us stir us we pray
Come, Holy Spirit revive the church today

Then in an age when darkness gripped the earth
The just shall live by faith was learned
The Holy Spirit gave the church new birth
As reformation fires burned.

In later years the great revivals came
When saints would seek the Lord and pray
O once again we need that holy flame
To meet the challenge of today

Chorus
Come, Holy Spirit, dark is the hour
We need your filling
Your love and your mighty power
Move now among us stir us we pray
Come, Holy Spirit revive the church today
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Come, Holy Spirit, dark is the hour
We need your filling
Your love and your mighty power
Move now among us stir us we pray
Come, Holy Spirit . . .
Revive the church today
Revive the church today
Revive the church today!
(COPYRIGHT 1971 JOHN W. PETERSON)