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Play “The Spirit of Prayer”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Spirit of Prayer (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 2 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The praying spirit breathe;
- The watching power impart;
- From all entanglements beneath
- Call off my peaceful heart;
- My feeble mind sustain,
- By worldly thoughts oppressed:
- Appear, and bid me turn again
- To my eternal rest.
- 2Swift to my rescue come;
- Thine own this morning seize;
- Gather my wandering spirit home,
- And keep in perfect peace:
- Suffered no more to rove
- O'er all the earth abroad,
- Arrest the prisoner of thy love,
- And shut me up in God.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Spirit of Prayer page.
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