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The Penitent's Resolve

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 8.

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The Penitent's Resolve.

By J. D. Downer

How have I strayed; what wanderings made From out the narrow way : How sad and weary, the desert dreary, Has proved for many a day.
In doubt and anguish, I'm left to languish, All weary sad and lone : Reft of the Spirit the saints inherit, Ah where is my white stone ?
I will no longer, the desert wander ; In hopeless sorrow mourn : I'll heed the warning, this very morning With penitence I'll turn.
O Lord I perish ! O Saviour cherish, Revive the hope in me ; Help my endeavor this thrall to sever ; From Satan's power set free.
Both weak and wicked, yea blind and naked ; And sunk in poverty, In all my weakness, I come with meekness And pray for liberty. J. D. Downer. Lemonweir, Wis., Jan. 1, 1865.