# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S576
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

6 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

is in us and does the pbuilding with us and through: us,’
surely, may we look for success. That is God’s solemn:;
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit.” Firmly,|
this we join the Christian poet in the fervent prayer: |

Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord!
Be all Thy graces now outpoured
On each believer’s mind and heart;
Thy fervent love to them impart.
Lord, by the brightness of Thy light,
Thou in the faith dost men unite
Of ev’ry land and evry tongue; we
This to Thy praise, O Lord, our God, be sung?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! :
Thou holy Light, Guide Divine,
Oh, cause the Word of Life to shine!
Teach us to know our God aright
And call Him Father with delight.
From ev'ry error keep us free;
Let none but Christ our Master be
That we in living faith abide,
In Him, our Lord, with all our might confide.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 3

Thou holy Fire, Comfort true,

Grant us the will Thy work to do

And in Thy service to abide;

Let trials turn us not aside.

Lord, by Thy pow’r prepare each heart

And to our weakness strength impart

That bravely here we may contend,

Thro’ life and death to Thee, our Lord, ascend:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Am :