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PRAISE AND PRAYER.
Can
words alone the first display?
Prove we the last by bended knee?
The right to praise, the power to pray,
Must both be given us, Lord, by Thee.
Prove we the last by bended knee?
The right to praise, the power to pray,
Must both be given us, Lord, by Thee.
Thy Spirit must the heart prepare,
And faith in thy dear Son be known,
Before the voice of praise or prayer
Can rise like incense to Thy throne.
And faith in thy dear Son be known,
Before the voice of praise or prayer
Can rise like incense to Thy throne.
Then give the power Thy grace imparts,
The love by Jesus shown of yore;
That praiseless lives and prayerless hearts
May prove our guilt and shame no more.
The love by Jesus shown of yore;
That praiseless lives and prayerless hearts
May prove our guilt and shame no more.
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