Lord, how can man e'er preach Thy Word (Hymn 901)

Verse 1: Lord, how can man e'er preach Thy Word? He is a brittle, crazy glass; Yet in Thy temple is conferred This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window through Thy grace. Verse 2: But when Thou dost anneal Thy story In glass, Thy life to shine within The holy preachers, light of glory More radiant grows and more doth win, Which else shows waterish, bleak, and thin. Verse 3: The life and doctrine blent in one As light and color mingled, bring A strong regard; but speech alone Doth vanish like a flaring thing, And in the ear, not spirit ring.