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I PRAY FOR GUIDANCE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 14.

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“I PRAY FOR GUIDANCE.”

By J. A. Gregory

FATHER, I would be guided by thy hand; Lead me, oh! lead me through this “vale of tears,” Until I reach that bright and heavenly land, Beyond the confines of these rolling years.
Lead me from sin, and from temptation far; Nor let me wander from the narrow way That leads to climes where saints and angels are, Where life flows on through realms of endless day.
Oh! guide me safe o’er all life’s stormy tide; Be thou beside me when the tempest roars; Soothe the rough billows as I onward glide, And bring me safely to the farther shore.
The paths of sin lie thick on every hand; Guide me, and keep me safe where’er I go, And grant that in thy strength I may withstand The fierce assaults of every secret foe.
Oh! keep me, Lord, nor let a single sin Blight all my hopes, and wither all my joy; But may my heart, all purified within, Be filled with love and peace without alloy.
J. A. GREGORY.