We Join to Pray

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We join to pray, with wishes kind

Author: Elizabeth C. Gaskell
Tune: HAND IN HAND
Published in 17 hymnals

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1 We join to pray, with wishes kind,
A blessing, Lord, from Thee,
On those who now the bands have twined
Which ne’er may broken be.

2 We know that scenes not always bright
Must unto them be given;
But over all give Thou the light
Of love, and truth, and heaven.

3 Still hand in hand, their journey through,
Joint pilgrims may they go;
Mingling their joys as helpers true,
And sharing every woe.

4 May each in each still feed the flame
Of pure and holy love;
In faith and trust and heart the same,
The same their home above.

Source: Book of Worship (Rev. ed.) #494

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Author: Elizabeth C. Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: AKA Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Born: 29-Sep-1810 Birthplace: London, England Died: 12-Nov-1865 Location of death: Alton, Hampshire, England Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Brook Street Unitarian Chapel, Knutsford, Cheshire, England Gender: Female Religion: Unitarian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: England Executive summary: Cranford English novelist and biographer, born on the 29th of September 1810 in Lindsay Row, Chelsea, London, since destroyed to make way for Cheyne Walk. Her father, William Stevenson, came from Berwick-on-Tweed, and had been successively Unitarian minister, farmer, boarding-house keeper for students… Go to person page >

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