Nearly all his hymns are prayers--prayers full
of the tenderest appeals, as if his faith trembled
in approaching the Golden Gate. The following
is given as an instance:
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To Him who bends to hear the weak,
I bring my simple plea:
In every pain and sore distress,
Turn not away from me!
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Although unworthy to enjoy
Thy presence full and free,
Deserving but to be cast out--
Turn not away from me!
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When my acquaintance, one by one,
Leave me in misery;
And friend and comrade stand afar,
Turn not away from me!
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For Thy dear cross and precious death
On lonely Calvary,
And for Thine intercession now,
Turn not away from me!
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When I must face the stormy flood,
Where many sorrows be;
And through the valley walk alone,
Turn not away from me!
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When Thou shalt come the second time,
With awful majesty,
To judge the living and the dead,
Turn not away from me!
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