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Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power

Hymn composed by

Lowell Mason

Contextual information

Rev. Horace Westwood, a British Methodist minister, emigrated to the United States. By the time he was twenty-six years old, in 1910, he was serving Unitarian congregations in Ohio and Manitoba. Westwood wrote this hymn in 1922. 

It appears as #403 in Singing the Living Tradition. 

Rev. Horace Westwood, a British Methodist minister, emigrated to the United States. By the time he was twenty-six years old, in 1910, he was serving Unitarian congregations in Ohio and Manitoba. Westwood wrote this hymn in 1922. 

It appears as #403 in Singing the Living Tradition. 

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HAMBURG

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L.M.

10.9.10.9

Song Composer

Lowell Mason

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Spirit of truth, of life, of power,

we bring ourselves as gifts to thee:

oh, bind our hearts this sacred hour

in faith and hope and charity.

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