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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 22.

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CONSECRATION

By S. B. Whitney

S. B. WHITNEY.
Take me, Lord, as wholly thine; May thy light within me shine; O abide with me, I pray! Let me serve thee, day by day.
Take my heart, and may I be New-created, Lord, in thee; Give me flesh, for heart of stone; Let thy will in me be done.
Take my mind, and let it be Dedicated, Lord, to thee, As a temple cleansed from sin, While thy Spirit dwells within.
Take my eyes, and let them see Only that which pleaseth thee; Ready to discern the right, Blind to all but heavenly light.
Take my ears, and let them be Closed to all but truth and thee; Open, always, to thy voice, At its entrance to rejoice.
Take my lips, and let them speak Words of comfort to the weak; Touched by flame of living love, Taken from thy courts above.
Take my hands, and let them be Cleansed from all iniquity; Ready in thy service, Lord, Handling skillfully thy word.
Take my feet, and make them run Swiftly in the race begun; Make them like the youthful roe, In the way of life to go.
Take my life, and let it be Willing sacrifice to thee; Spent below in holy strife, Ending in eternal life.
Take me, Lord, as wholly thine, Let thy graces in me shine; Use me here, then let me rest In the mansions of the blest.