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 "title": "A Welcome to Christian Friends",
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 "container": "Fast Day Hymns",
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    "text": "Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake,",
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    "text": "A hearty welcome here receive;",
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    "text": "May we together now partake",
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    "text": "The joys which only he can give!",
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    "text": "To you and us by grace ’tis given",
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    "text": "To know the Saviour’s precious name,",
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    "text": "And shortly we shall meet in heaven,",
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    "text": "Our hope, our way, our end, the same.",
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    "text": "May he, by whose kind care we meet,",
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    "text": "Send his good Spirit from above,",
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    "text": "Make our communications sweet,",
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    "text": "And cause our hearts to burn with love!",
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    "text": "Forgotten be each worldly theme,",
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    "text": "When Christians see each other thus:",
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    "text": "We only wish to speak of Him",
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    "text": "Who lived and died and reigns for us.",
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    "text": "We’ll talk of all He did and said,",
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    "text": "And suffer’d for us here below;",
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    "text": "The path He mark’d for us to tread,",
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    "text": "And what He’s doing for us now.",
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    "text": "Thus, as the moments pass away,",
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    "text": "We’ll love and wonder and adore,",
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    "text": "And hasten on the glorious day",
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    "text": "When we shall meet to part no more.",
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