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Hymn: The Saviour bids thee watch and pray (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: The Saviour bids thee watch and pray

Topic: Prayer

Writer: T Hastings

Composer: I Woodbury

Meter: CM

Tune: Siloam

Hymn Number: 253

Page Number: 085, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE Saviour bids thee watch and pray
Through life's momentous hour;
And grants the Spirit's quickening ray
To those who seek his power.


The Saviour bids thee watch and pray,
Maintain a warrior's strife;
O Christian, hear his voice to-day:
Obedience is thy life.


The Saviour bids thee watch and pray;
For soon the hour will come
That calls thee from the earth away
To thine eternal home.


The Saviour bids thee watch and pray;
O hearken to his voice,
And follow where he leads the way,
To heaven's eternal joys!