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 "container": "Before Annual Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings",
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    "text": "The Shunammite, oppressed with grief,",
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    "text": "When she had lost the son she loved,",
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    "text": "Went to Elisha for relief,",
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    "text": "He sent his servant on before,",
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    "text": "To lay a staff upon his head;",
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    "text": "This he could do, but do no more⁠—",
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    "text": "He left him as he found him, dead.",
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    "text": "But when the Lord’s almighty power",
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    "text": "Wrought with the prophet’s prayer and faith",
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    "text": "The mother saw a joyful hour⁠—",
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    "text": "Thus, like the weeping Shunammite,",
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    "text": "For many dead in sin we grieve.",
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    "text": "Now, Lord, display thine arm of might,",
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    "text": "Cause them to hear thy voice and live.",
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    "text": "Thy preachers boar the staff in vain,",
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    "text": "Though at thine own command we go.",
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    "text": "Lord, we have tried and tried again,",
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    "text": "We find them dead, and leave them so.",
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    "text": "Come then thyself⁠—to every heart",
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    "text": "The glory of thy name make known.",
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    "text": "The means are our appointed part,",
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    "text": "The power and grace are thine alone.",
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