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The Mother’s Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 29.

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The Mother’s Prayer

By William Cullen Bryant

STARTING forth on life's rough way, Father, guide them; O, we know not what of harm May betide them! ’Neath the shadow of thy wing, Father, hide them; Waking, sleeping, Lord, we pray, Go beside them.
When in prayer they cry to thee, Do thou hear them; From the stains of sin and shame Do thou clear them; ’Mid the quicksands and the rocks Do thou steer them; In temptation, trial, grief, Be thou near them.
Unto thee we give them up: Lord, receive them. In the world we know must be Much to grieve them, Many striving oft and strong To deceive them; Trustful, in thy hands of love We must leave them. — William Cullen Bryant.