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Sweet Prayer

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 28, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 22.

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Sweet Prayer.

TUNE.—“Sweet Home.”
When torn is the bosom by sorrow and care, Be it ever so simple, there's nothing like prayer; It eases, it softens, subdues, yet sustains, Gives vigor to hope, and puts passion in chains.
Chorus. Prayer, prayer, sweet, sweet prayer; Be it ever so simple, there's nothing like prayer.
When far from the friends we hold dearest we part, What fond recollections still cling to the heart; Past converse, past scenes, past enjoyments are there, Yet how painfully pleasing, till hallowed by prayer.
Chorus.
When pleasure would woo us from Piety's arms, The siren sings sweetly, or silently charms, We listen, we loiter, and are caught in the snare; Then looking to Jesus we conquer by prayer.
While strangers to prayer, we are strangers to bliss; Heaven pours its full streams through no medium like this; And till we the seraph's full ecstasy share, Our chalice of joy must be guarded by prayer.