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    "text": "The Lord, our salvation and light,",
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    "text": "The guide and the strength of our days,",
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   {
    "text": "Has brought us together to-night,",
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    "text": "A new Ebenezer to raise.",
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   {
    "text": "The year we have now passed through",
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   {
    "text": "His goodness with blessings has crown’d;",
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    "text": "Each morning his mercies were new;",
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    "text": "Then let our thanksgivings abound.",
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    "text": "Encompass’d with dangers and snares,",
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    "text": "His ear he inclined to our prayers,",
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    "text": "His hand open’d wide to our wants,",
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   {
    "text": "We never besought him in vain;",
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    "text": "When burden’d with sorrow or sin,",
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    "text": "He help’d us again and again,",
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    "text": "Or where before now had we been?",
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    "text": "His gospel throughout the long year,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From Sabbath to Sabbath he gave.",
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   {
    "text": "How oft has he met with us here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And shown himself mighty to save!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His candlestick has been removed",
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    "text": "From churches once privileged thus;",
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    "text": "But though we unworthy have proved,",
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   {
    "text": "It still is continued to us.",
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    "text": "For so many mercies received,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! what returns have we made?",
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    "text": "His Spirit we often have grieved,",
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    "text": "And evil for good have repaid.",
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    "text": "How well it becomes us to cry⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“Oh! who is a God like to thee?",
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    "text": "Who passest iniquities by,",
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    "text": "And plungest them deep in the sea!”",
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    "text": "To Jesus, who sits on the throne,",
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    "text": "Our best hallelujahs we bring.",
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    "text": "To thee it is owing alone",
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   {
    "text": "That we are permitted to sing.",
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    "text": "Assist us, we pray, to lament",
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    "text": "The sins of the year that is past;",
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   {
    "text": "And grant that the next may be spent",
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    "text": "Far more to thy praise than the last.",
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