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The Prayer
Father! help them who walk in their own light;Who think they see, but are before Thee blind;
Give them within thy rest, thy spirit's sight;
And may they in the Christ their healing find;
Father! they have not faith, help Thou their trust;
Grant them within thy precepts to fulfill;
Oh bid thy spirit animate their dust,
And bid them once again to know thy will;
Then shall they live with Thee and sin no more;
Then walk with Christ thy well beloved son;
And when their earthly pilgrimage is o'er,
And they the martyr's crown in him have won,
Oh take them to thine own eternal rest,
The heaven where he who enters must be blest.
Poem No. 119–123; winter-spring 1839
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