Let songs of praises fill the sky:
Christ, our ascended Lord,
Sends down His Spirit from on high
According to His Word.
All hail the day of Pentecost,
The coming of the Holy Ghost!
The Spirit by His heav’nly breath
Creates new life within;
He quickens sinners from the death
Of trespasses and sin.
All hail the day of Pentecost,
The coming of the Holy Ghost!
Come, Holy Spirit, from above
With Thy celestial fire;
Come and with flames of zeal and love
Our hearts and tongues inspire.
Be this our day of Pentecost,
The coming of the Holy Ghost!
About the writer: Thomas Cotterill, a clergyman in the Church of England, was born in Staffordshire, England in 1779. In 1817 he became perpetual curate of St. Paul’s at Sheffield, where he spent the rest of his life. It was here that he met and formed a friendship with James Montgomery, the poet and hymn writer, who helped him in the preparation of a volume of hymns called A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use. So popular was this book that it reached its eighth edition by 1819. It contained 150 psalms and 367 hymns, of which Montgomery furnished 50 and Cotterill 32. Cotterill died in 1823.
Key Verse: When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. –Romans 5:6