Words: E. G. Nelson; Stanzas 1,2, and 5
Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885); Stanzas 3 and 4
The Holy Year, 1865 (Hymn 6, Stanzas 5 and 6)
A double portion of Thy Spirit I do pray of Thee;
That mantle of Thy Virtue might thus twice enrobed me.
So at Love’s Second Advent I may stand,
Amidst Thy saved, blessed, chosen band.
Without sin and without seam His Endless Kingdom made;
That He be our Eternal Light wither all need for shade.
Enrobed within Thy E’er- lit Light of Love,
Forever upon us Thy Peaceful Dove.
“I saw Heaven open’d, I beheld (Rev. 19. 11.)
One on a White Horse ride,
Follow’d by Armies out of Heaven
In white robes glorified;
His eyes like fire, their rays like flaming swords,
His name is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords!”
Such at Thy Second Coming Thou
Wilt be, at that great Day;
O help us by Thy Spirit now
Ill works to cast away,
To walk in Love, as Children of the Light,
And follow Thee in garments pure and white.
Thy vesture dipped in blood then doth all Purity obey;
It is the armour of the Light of Never- ending Day.
Cast off all works that darken Love of God;
Begirt thyself within The Word of God.