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Text:Prayer, Sweet Prayer
Author:Charles M. Lewis
Tune:[How sweet is the blessing our hearts find in pray'r]
Composer:Rev. S. Monroe VanSant

13. Prayer, Sweet Prayer

1 How sweet is the blessing our hearts find in pray’r!
What comfort and peace it inspires!
A refuge in sorrow, a solace in care,
A shield in temptation’s fierce fires.

Refrain:
Prayer, prayer,
Balm for wounded hearts;
Prayer, prayer,
Shield for Satan’s darts;
Prayer, prayer,
Safeguard all the way,
Till life’s rugged path leads up
To realms of day.

2 How blest the assurance, when trials assail,
That pray’r brings us strength to o’ercome;
That our pleadings for succor shall ever prevail,
Till at length we shall reach that blest home. [Refrain]

3 The young and the aged rejoice in its power,
The weak and the weary at heart;
Through life’s toilsome journey, in death’s trying hour
Its promises will not depart. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: How sweet is the blessing our hearts find in pray'r
Title: Prayer, Sweet Prayer
Author: Charles M. Lewis
Refrain First Line: Prayer, prayer
Publication Date: 1897
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [How sweet is the blessing our hearts find in pray'r]
Composer: Rev. S. Monroe VanSant
Notes: Public Domain.



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