O heavenly gift of love divine, The spirit's grace and power

Top Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

O heavenly gift of love divine, The spirit's grace and power

Author: Jones Very
Tune: ST. AGNES (Dykes)
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Songs of the Saints for Organ

Author: Jones Very

Very, Jones, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, Aug. 28, 1813, his father, Jones Very, being a shipmaster. He graduated at Harvard College in 1836. He remained at his College, as tutor in Greek, for two years, and then entered the Unitarian Ministry (1843). He has been engaged in the work of a preacher without a pastorate from the first, a great part of his time being devoted to literary pursuits. In 1839 he published a volume of Essays and Poems, from which several pieces have been taken as hymns, including:— 1. Father! I wait Thy word. The sun doth stand. Waiting upon God. 2. Father, there is no change to live with Thee. Peace in the Father's Care. 3. Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand. The Spirit-Land. 4. Wilt Thou no… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	O heavenly gift of love divine, The spirit's grace and power
Author:	Jones Very
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

^ top

Tune

ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

Go to tune page >

All tunes published with 'O heavenly gift of love divine, The spirit's grace and power'^ top