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BEFORE THE TABERNACLE
Sweetest Jesus, kind and dear,
For my sake abiding here,
Not in glory bright and great,
But in poor and mean estate;
Look on me who kneel before
This Your little curtained door.
Through that door if I could see,
You would look like bread to me;
But Yourself is there, I know,
For Yourself has told me so.
For my sake abiding here,
Not in glory bright and great,
But in poor and mean estate;
Look on me who kneel before
This Your little curtained door.
Through that door if I could see,
You would look like bread to me;
But Yourself is there, I know,
For Yourself has told me so.
Humbly here I kneel and pray;
Help me, Jesus, day by day,
Till the time when I shall see
You in all Your majesty.
Help me, Jesus, to refrain
From all naughty words and vain,
And from every naughty deed
Like the things that made You bleed.
By the wounds Your dear hands bore,
Give me grace to love You more;
By the wounding of Your Feet,
Teach me Your obedience meet;
By the wounding of Your Side,
Let me in Your Heart abide.
Help me, Jesus, day by day,
Till the time when I shall see
You in all Your majesty.
Help me, Jesus, to refrain
From all naughty words and vain,
And from every naughty deed
Like the things that made You bleed.
By the wounds Your dear hands bore,
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By the wounding of Your Feet,
Teach me Your obedience meet;
By the wounding of Your Side,
Let me in Your Heart abide.
Bless my dear ones, dearest Lord,
In their thought and deed and word;
Bless, dear Jesus, every one.
Jesus sweet, my time is done,
So, good-bye. And yet I know
How Your love will with me go,
Though within the church You stay
All the night and all the day.
In their thought and deed and word;
Bless, dear Jesus, every one.
Jesus sweet, my time is done,
So, good-bye. And yet I know
How Your love will with me go,
Though within the church You stay
All the night and all the day.
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