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Hymn: How sweet to be allowed to pray (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: How sweet to be allowed to pray

Topic: Prayer

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: CM

Tune: Downs

Hymn Number: 319

Page Number: 106, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HOW sweet to be allowed to pray

To God, the Holy One,

With filial love and trust to say,

O God, thy will be done!



We in these sacred words can find

A cure for every ill;

They calm and soothe the troubled mind,

And bid all care be still.



O could my heart thus ever pray,

Thus imitate thy Son!

Teach me, O God, with truth to say,

Thy will, not mine, be done.