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 "title": "Elijah’s Prayer",
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 "container": "Before Annual Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings",
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  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Does it not grief and wonder move,",
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    "text": "To think of Israel’s shameful fall,",
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    "text": "Who needed miracles to prove",
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    "text": "Whether the Lord was God or Baal?",
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    "text": "Methinks I see Elijah stand,",
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    "text": "His features glow with love and zeal.",
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    "text": "In faith and prayer he lifts his hand,",
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    "text": "“O God! if I thy servant am,",
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    "text": "If ’tis thy message fills my heart,",
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    "text": "Now glorify thy holy name,",
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    "text": "And show this people who thou art.”",
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    "text": "He spake, and lo a sudden flame",
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    "text": "Consumed the wood, the dust, the stone.",
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    "text": "The people struck, at once proclaim⁠—",
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    "text": "“The Lord is God, the Lord alone.”",
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    "text": "Like him we mourn an awful day,",
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    "text": "When more for Baal than God appear.",
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    "text": "Like him, believers, let us pray,",
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    "text": "And may the God of Israel hear.",
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    "text": "Lord, if thy servant speak thy truth,",
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    "text": "If he indeed is sent by thee,",
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    "text": "Confirm the word to all our youth,",
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    "text": "And let them thy salvation see.",
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    "text": "Now may the Spirit’s holy fire",
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    "text": "Pierce every heart that hears thy word,",
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    "text": "Consume each hurtful vain desire,",
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    "text": "And make them know thou art the Lord!",
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