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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 16, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 20.

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PRAYER

By Robert Southey

[Imitated from the Persian.]
Lord, who art merciful as well as just, Incline thine ear to me, a child of dust! Not what I would, O Lord, I offer thee, Alas! but what I can. Father Almighty, who hast made me man, And bade me look to Heaven, for thou art there, Accept my sacrifice and humble prayer. Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition: My nothingness, my wants, My sins, and my contrition. —Robert Southey.