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“JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER!”

The firmest friends may change,
The best beloved may leave us,
Familiar ones—grow strange,
Or death of all bereave us.
Where is the love undying?
The Friend who never fails?
In whom the heart, relying,
May trust—when grief assails!
Behold the Lamb! who beareth
Believers' sins away:
For such He ever careth—
And now! as yesterday!