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 "title": "Joy and Peace in Believing",
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    "text": "Sometimes a light surprises",
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    "text": "The Christian while he sings;",
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    "text": "It is the Lord who rises",
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    "text": "With healing in his wings.",
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    "text": "When comforts are declining,",
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    "text": "He grants the soul again",
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    "text": "To cheer it after rain.",
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    "text": "In holy contemplation,",
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    "text": "We sweetly then pursue",
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    "text": "The theme of God’s salvation,",
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    "text": "And find it ever new:",
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    "text": "Set free from present sorrow,",
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    "text": "We cheerfully can say,",
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    "text": "E’en let th’ unknown to-morrow",
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    "text": "Bring with it what it may.",
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    "text": "It can bring with it nothing",
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    "text": "But he will bear us through;",
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    "text": "Who gives the lilies clothing",
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    "text": "Will clothe his people too:",
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    "text": "Beneath the spreading heavens",
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    "text": "No creature but is fed;",
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    "text": "Though vine nor fig-tree neither",
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    "text": "Their wonted fruit shall bear,",
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    "text": "Though all the field should wither,",
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    "text": "Nor flocks nor herds be there:",
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    "text": "Yet God the same abiding,",
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    "text": "His praise shall tune my voice;",
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    "text": "For, while in him confiding,",
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