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

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: The Saviour bids us watch and pray

Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 870

Page Number: 513, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

The Saviour bids us watch and pray,

Through life's brief, fleeting hour,

And gives the Spirit's quickening ray

To those who seek his power.



The Saviour bids us watch and pray,

Maintain a warrior's strife;

Help, Lord, to hear thy voice to-day;

Obedience is our life.



The Saviour bids us watch and pray;

For soon the hour will come

That calls us from the earth away,

To our eternal home.



O Saviour, we would watch and pray,

And hear thy sacred voice,

And walk, as thou hast marked the way,

To heaven's eternal joys.