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    "text": "By the poor widow’s oil and meal",
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    "text": "Elijah was sustain’d;",
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    "text": "Though small the stock, it lasted well,",
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    "text": "For God the store maintain’d.",
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    "text": "It seem’d as if from day to day",
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    "text": "But still, though in a secret way,",
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    "text": "Thus to his poor He still will give",
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    "text": "Just for the present hour;",
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    "text": "But for to-morrow they must live",
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    "text": "No barn or storehouse they possess",
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    "text": "On which they can depend;",
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    "text": "Yet have no cause to fear distress,",
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    "text": "For Jesus is their Friend,",
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    "text": "Then let not doubts your mind assail;",
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    "text": "Remember God has said,",
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    "text": "“The cruse and barrel shall not fail⁠—",
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    "text": "And thus, though faint it often seems,",
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    "text": "He keeps their grace alive;",
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    "text": "Supplied by his refreshing streams,",
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    "text": "Though in ourselves we have no stock,",
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    "text": "The Lord is nigh to save;",
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    "text": "His door flies open when we knock,",
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