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 "title": "The Disciples at Sea.",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "Constrain’d by their Lord to embark,",
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    "text": "And venture without him to sea,",
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    "text": "The season tempestuous and dark,",
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    "text": "How grieved the disciples must be!",
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    "text": "But though he remain’d on the shore,",
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    "text": "He spent the night for them in pray’r;",
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    "text": "They still were as safe as before,",
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    "text": "And equally under his care.",
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    "text": "They strove, though in vain, for awhile",
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    "text": "The force of the waves to withstand,",
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    "text": "But when they were wearied with toil",
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    "text": "They saw their dear Saviour at hand:",
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    "text": "They gladly received him on board,",
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   {
    "text": "His presence their spirits revived,",
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   {
    "text": "The sea became calm at his word,",
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    "text": "And soon at their port they arrived.",
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    "text": "We, like the disciples, are toss’d,",
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    "text": "By storms on a perilous deep;",
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    "text": "But cannot be possibly lost,",
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    "text": "For Jesus has charge of the ship:",
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    "text": "Though billows and winds are enraged,",
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   {
    "text": "And threaten to make us their sport;",
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    "text": "This pilot his word has engaged",
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    "text": "To bring us in safety to port.",
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   {
    "text": "If sometimes we struggle alone,",
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   {
    "text": "And he is withdrawn from our view,",
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   {
    "text": "It makes us more willing to own",
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   {
    "text": "We nothing without him can do:",
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    "text": "Then Satan our hopes would assail,",
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    "text": "But Jesus is still within call,",
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    "text": "And when our poor efforts quite fail",
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    "text": "He comes in good time and does all.",
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    "text": "Yet, Lord, we are ready to shrink",
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   {
    "text": "Unless we thy presence perceive;",
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   {
    "text": "save us, (we cry,) or we sink;",
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   {
    "text": "We would, but we cannot believe!",
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   {
    "text": "The night has been long and severe,",
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   {
    "text": "The winds and the seas are still high,",
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   {
    "text": "Dear Saviour, this moment appear,",
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   {
    "text": "And say to our souls, “It is I!”",
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