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Text:Prayer Is The Breath Of God In Man
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:HOLY CROSS
Composer:James Clifft Wade
Media:MIDI file

8840. Prayer Is The Breath Of God In Man

1 Prayer is the breath of God in man,
Returning whence it came;
Love is the sacred fire within,
And prayer the rising flame.

2 It gives the burdened spirit ease,
And soothes the troubled breast;
Yields comfort to the mourners here,
And to the weary rest.

3 When God inclines the heart to pray
He hath an ear to hear;
To Him there’s music in a groan,
And beauty in a tear.

4 The humble suppliant cannot fail
To have his wants supplied;
Since He for sinners intercedes,
Who once for sinners died.

Text Information
First Line: Prayer is the breath of God in man
Title: Prayer Is The Breath Of God In Man
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Robert Hall's posthumous edition fo Beddome's hymns, 1817
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: HOLY CROSS
Composer: James Clifft Wade (1865)
Meter: CM
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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