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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 399 · Words: James Vila Blake
Beneath the Forms of Outward Rite
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A communion hymn by James Vila Blake that reframes the Lord's Supper as present wherever people share bread and love with one another, not confined to formal ritual alone.
Verse 1
Beneath the forms of outward rite
Thy supper, Lord, is spread
In every quiet upper room
Where fainting souls are fed.
Verse 2
The bread is always consecrate
Which men divide with men;
And every act of brotherhood
Repeats Thy feast again.
Verse 3
The blessed cup is only passed
True memory of Thee,
When life anew pours out its wine
With rich sufficiency.
Verse 4
O Master, through these symbols shared,
Thine own dear self impart,
That in our daily life may flame
The passion of Thy heart.
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