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Then came she and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, help me.'
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HELP us, Lord; each hour of need

Thy heavenly succour give;
Help us in thought and word and deed

Each hour on earth we live.
p 2 O help us when our spirits bleed

With contrite anguish sore;
And, when our hearts are cold and dead,

O help us, Lord, the more.
m 3 O help us, through the prayer of faith,

More firmly to believe;
For still the more the servant hath

The more shall he receive.
4 If, strangers to Thy fold, we call,

Imploring at Thy feet
The crumbs that from Thy table fall,

'T is all we dare entreat.
5 But be it, Lord of mercy, all,

So Thou wilt grant but this;
The crumbs that from Thy table fall

Are light and life and bliss.
mf 6 O help us, Saviour, from on high;

We know no help but Thee;
O help us so to live and die
As Thine in heaven to be.

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· Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation.'
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FOR a closer walk with God,

3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! A calm and heavenly frame,

How sweet their memory

still! A light to shine upon the road

d But they have left an aching void That leads me to the Lamb!

The world can never fill.
mp 2 Where is the blessedness I knew mp 4 Return, O Holy Dove ! return,
When first I saw the Lord ?

Sweet messenger of rest !
Where is the soul-refreshing view

I hate the sins that made Thee mourn,
Of Jesus and His word ?

And drove Thee from my breast.
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The dearest idol I have known,

Whate'er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,

And worship only Thee.
mp 6 So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;

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men. So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.

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My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God!
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EARER, my God, to Thee,

Nearer to Thee!
Even though it be a cross

That raiseth me,
Still all my song would be,

*Nearer, my God, to Thee,
d Nearer to Thee!'
p 2 Though, like the wanderer,

The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,

My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams I'd be

Nearer, my God, to Thee,
d Nearer to Thee!

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There let the way appear

Steps unto heaven,
All that Thou send'st to me

In mercy given,

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