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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 31, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 53.

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PRAYER

By Mrs. P. Alderman

MRS. P. ALDERMAN.
Could we ascend where faith can rise, And bear a message to the skies, With burning incense offered where The matchless love accepts our prayer, Could we behold that love aflame, We’d say, “O, hallowed be thy name!”
’Tis sweetest boon to mortals given,— That sinners’ prayers can enter heaven; And Son and Father listen when Petitions rise from sons of men; In hour of trouble, hour of need, That Jesus then our cause will plead.
I die to self and love of gold When I this greater wealth behold, That I may send a message free, Morn, noon, and night, dear Lord, to thee, And know the world can ne’er combine To intercept this sacred line.
O, shall we not in this our need, The earnest message upward speed? The world hath need that we implore For means and workers more and more, And ask that heaven’s windows wide Be opened now to Israel’s side.