Above:  Flag of England

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Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing:

https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/dismiss-us-with-thy-blessing-lord/

Come, Holy Spirit, Come!:

https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/come-holy-spirit-come/

That Solemn Night:

https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-solemn-night/

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Above:  Church of the Common Ground, Atlanta, Georgia, April 5, 2012

(The Church of the Common Ground is a ministry to homeless people.)

Image Source = Bill Monk, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

(https://picasaweb.google.com/114749828757741527421/CommonGroundFootwashingAndEucharist#5728362228570780674)

Hymn Source = The Church Hymnal (1935), of the Church of the United Brethren, a predecessor body of The United Methodist Church (1968-)

Words (1768) by the Reverend Joseph Hart (1712-1768)

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1.  That solemn night before his death,

The Lamb, for sinners slain,

Did, almost with his dying breath,

This solemn feast ordain.

2.  To keep the feast, Lord, we have met,

And to remember thee;

Help each each poor trembler to repeat,

For me, he died, for me.

3.  Thy suff’rings, Lord, each sacred sign

To our remembrance brings;

We eat the bread and drink the wine,

But think on nobler things.

4.  Oh, tune our tongues, and set in frame

Each heart that pants for thee,

To sing, Hosanna to the Lamb,

The Lamb that died for me.

Above:  Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Cumming, Georgia, June 12, 2011 

Image Source = Bill Monk, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

(https://picasaweb.google.com/114749828757741527421/EpiscopalChurchOfTheHolySpirit#5617438065359600834)

Hymn Source = The New Psalms and Hymns (1901), of the Presbyterian Church in the United States

Words (1759) by the Reverend Joseph Hart (1712-1768)

Words revised in 1776 by the Reverend Augustus Toplady (1740-1778), a Calvinistic Anglican who criticized John Wesley strongly

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1.  Come, Holy Spirit, come!

Let Thy bright beams arise;

Dispel the darkness from our minds,

And open Thou our eyes.

2.  Revive our drooping faith,

Our doubts and fears remove,

And kindle in our breasts the flame

Of never-dying love.

3.  Convince us of our sin;

Then lead to Jesus’ blood;

And to our wondering view reveal

The secret love of God.

4.  ‘Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,

To sanctify the soul,

To pour fresh life on every part,

And new create the whole.

5.  Dwell therefore in our hearts;

Our minds from bondage free;

Then shall we know, and praise, and love,

The Father, Son, and Thee.

Above:  St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Carrollton, Georgia, July 17, 2011

Image Source = Bill Monk, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

(https://picasaweb.google.com/114749828757741527421/BishopWhitmoreSVisitToStMargaretSCarrollton#5630377979589226386)

Hymn Source = The New Psalms and Hymns (1901), of the Presbyterian Church in the United States

Words (1762) by the Reverend Joseph Hart (1712-1768), who preached at Jewin Street Chapel, London, from 1760 to 1768

Hart was a Calvinist; once he published a criticism of one of John Wesley’s sermons.  And reliable sources I have consulted list Jewin Street Chapel (http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?service=external/SearchResults&sp=I9%3AJewin+Street+Chapel+%28City+of+London+EC1%29++++++++++++++++++++++++%3A%3AJ) as being “Wesleyan.”  Robert Guy McCutchan, in Our Hymnal:  A Manual of The Methodist Hymnal, Second Edition (Nashville, TN:  Abingdon Press, 1937, page 235) wrote of Hart:

Joseph Hart was simple, earnest, and much beloved by his people.  He died on May 24, 1768, at London.  Twenty thousand persons attended his funeral services, and an obelisk was erected in Bunhill Field in 1875, more than one hundred years after his death, to perpetuate his memory.

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1.  Dismiss us with Thy blessing, Lord,

Help us to feed upon Thy word;

All that has been amiss forgive,

And let Thy truth within us live.

2.  Though we are guilty, Thou are good;

Wash all our works in Jesus’ blood:

Give every fettered soul release,

And bid us all depart in peace.