Text 1Gracious Father, guard Thy childrenFrom the foe’s destructive power;Save, O save them, Lord, from fallingIn this dark and trying hour.Thou wilt surely prove Thy people,All our graces must be tried;But Thy word illumines our pathway,And in God we still confide. 2We are in the time of waiting;Soon we shall behold our Lord,Wafted far away…
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Text 1Jesus, I my cross have taken,all to leave and follow Thee.All things else I have forsaken,Thou from hence my all shall be.Perish every fond ambition,all I’ve sought or hoped or known.Yet how rich is my condition!God and Heaven are still mine own. 2Let the world despise and leave me,they have left my Savior, too.Human…