Supplication for the Week of Prayer by Worthie Harris Holden

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 14, 1912

Supplication for the Week of Prayer

By Worthie Harris Holden

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

O GRACIOUS Father, bend thine ear to listen Unto thy waiting suppliants to-day! We praise thy name that by thy cloudy pillar Thou leddest safely through the desert way; We thank thee for the Bread of Life from heaven. For streams that from the Rock our souls sustain; That Elam ever follows Marah’s waters, And hands uplift to heaven thy battles gain.

We tread upon the verge of Jordan’s river; The promised land awaits us over there. O purge our souls from self and all defilement! Make bright our armor through this week of prayer.

Look down in mercy on thy people scattered O’er all the earth in many a land and clime, And grant thy blest compelling heavenly presence, That we may do the work thou dost assign.

So gather Israel for the final conflict; The enemy surrounds on every hand; Led by our Captain, conquering and to conquer, We soon shall triumph in Immanuel’s land.

We laud thee for thy wonderful compassion; Too long we lingered in the desert waste: Now glorify thy name that from all nations True hearts and leal may to thy standard haste.

Portland, Oregon.