Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

Baptize us anew

No. 1209
Tune BAPTIZE US ANEW.
Words W. A. O.
Music W. A. Ogden.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

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Baptize us anewWith pow'r from on high,With love, O refresh us!Dear Saviour, draw nigh.

Chorus.

We humbly beseech thee, Lord Jesus, we pray,With love and the Spirit baptize us to-day.

Unworthy we cry,Unholy, unclean,O wash us and cleanse usFrom sin's guilty stain.

O heavenly Dove,Descend from on high!We plead thy rich blessing;In mercy draw nigh.

O list the glad voice!From heaven it came:Thou art my beloved,Well pleased I am.

(last v.)We praise thee, we bless thee, dear Lamb that was slain,We laud and adore thee, Amen and Amen.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1209» (large, left), title «BAPTIZE US ANEW.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line, «"But ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost."—Acts 1 ; 5.»; «W. A. O.» at the left and «W. A. OGDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); «Spirited.» in italics over the first bar; no meter, no reference line and no running head are printed (the page opens with the end of hymn 1208, «CLINGING AND RESTING.—Concluded.»). The four stanzas are interlinear, «1.»–«4.» before the lines of system 1. The chorus, headed «CHORUS.» (bold), is printed once and has two texts: the first, on the row of stanza 1, is sung after stanzas 1–3; the second, on the row of stanza 4 and headed «(last v.)» (small bold, on the row of stanza 3 at the start of the chorus), is sung after stanza 4. «By permission.» is printed under the music, above the page number «427». The print sets a thin space before «!», «;» and «:» («us !», «voice !», «high !», «ing ;», «came :», «Acts 1 ; 5»); it is closed up here. Apostrophes and quotation marks are written straight («pow'r», «sin's»). Words divided under the notes are joined («Bap-tize», «a-new», «Un-wor-thy», «Un-ho-ly», «un-clean», «heav-en-ly», «De-scend», «heav-en», «re-fresh», «be-lov-ed», «Sav-iour», «guilt-y», «bless-ing», «mer-cy», «pleas-ed», «hum-bly», «be-seech», «Je-sus», «Spir-it», «bap-tize», «a-dore», «A-men» → «Baptize», «anew», «Unworthy», «Unholy», «unclean», «heavenly», «Descend», «heaven», «refresh», «beloved», «Saviour», «guilty», «blessing», «mercy», «pleased», «humbly», «beseech», «Jesus», «Spirit», «baptize», «adore», «Amen»; «to-day» keeps its hyphen); «Lambthat wasslain,» (no word spaces in the print) is «Lamb that was slain,». Each stanza is set in four lines and each chorus in two, where the print's capitals begin the verse lines (the lower-case «baptize» and «dear» of the chorus show that its lines are long). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.