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    "text": "A shelter, from the rain or wind,",
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    "text": "Enter, but with a serious thought,",
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    "text": "Consider who is near!",
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    "text": "This is a consecrated spot⁠—",
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    "text": "The Lord is present here!",
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    "text": "A question of the utmost weight,",
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    "text": "While reading, meets your eye;",
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    "text": "May conscience witness to your state,",
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    "text": "And give a true reply!",
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    "text": "Is Jesus to your heart reveal’d",
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    "text": "But if his name you have not known,",
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    "text": "Oh, seek him while you may!",
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    "text": "Lest you should meet his awful frown",
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    "text": "In that approaching day.",
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    "text": "When the avenging Judge you see",
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    "text": "Where can you hide, or whither flee,",
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    "text": "If you reject him now?",
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