Prayer, Sweet Prayer

How sweet is the bless­ing

Our hearts find in pray­er!

What com­fort and peace it in­spires!

A re­fuge in sor­row

A sol­ace in care

A shield in temp­ta­tion’s fierce fires.

Prayer

pray­er

Balm for wound­ed hearts;

Prayer

pray­er

Shield for Sa­tan’s darts;

Prayer

pray­er

Safeguard all the way

Till life’s rug­ged path leads up

To realms of day.

How blest the as­sur­ance

When tri­als as­sail

That pray­er brings us strength to o’er­come;

That our plead­ings for suc­cor

Shall ever pre­vail

Till at length we shall reach that blest home.

The young and the ag­èd

Rejoice in its pow­er

The weak and the wea­ry at heart;

Thro’ life’s toil­some jour­ney

In death’s try­ing hour

Its pro­mises will not de­part.