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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 20.

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INVOCATION

By Alice Cary

Come down to us, help and heal us, Thou that once life's pathway trod, Knowing all its gloom and glory, Son of man, and Son of God.
Come down to us, help and heal us, When our hopes before us flee; Thou that hast been a man of sorrows, Tried and tempted, even as we.
By the weakness of our nature, By the burdens of our care, Steady up our fainting courage,— Save, O save us from despair!
By the still and strong temptation Of consenting hearts within, By the power of outward evil, Save, O save us from our sin!
From the dim and dreary doubtings That with faith a warfare make, Save us through thy sweet compassion,— Save us for thine own name's sake.
And when all of life is finished To the last low, fainting breath, Meet us in the awful shadows, And deliver us from death. —Alice Cary.