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408.

[Jesus, Thine efficacious word]

I have a message from God unto thee. —iii. 20.

Jesus, Thine efficacious word
(If Thou with the deliverer art)
Comes, as a message from the Lord,
A dagger to the faithless heart:
But when it hath the sinner slain,
It brings the dead to life again.