COME TO PRAYER! | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1867

‘COME TO PRAYER!’

‘O come let us bow down! let us kneel before our Maker.’

Come to the place of prayer! Parents and children come and kneel before Your God, and with united hearts adore Him whose alone your life and being are.

Come to the place of prayer! Ye band of loving hearts; O come and raise, With one consent, the grateful song of praise, To him who blest you with a lot so fair!

Come in the morning hour! For who hath raised you from the dream of night, Whose hand hath poured around the cheering light? Come and adore that kind and heavenly power!

Come at the close of day! Ere wearied nature sinks in gentle rest; Come, and let your sins be here confessed; Come, and for his protecting mercy pray.

Has sorrow’s withering blight Your dearest hopes in desolation laid, And the once cheerful home in gloom arrayed? Yet pray, for He can turn the gloom to light.

Has sickness entered in Your peaceful mansion? then let prayer ascend On wings of faith, to that all-gracious Friend, Who came to heal the bitter pains of sin.

Come to the place of prayer! At morn, at night—in gladness or in grief— Surround the throne of grace; there seek relief, Or pay your free and grateful homage there.

So in the world above Parents and children all may meet at last, When this your weary pilgrimage is past, To mingle there their joyful notes of love.