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 "container": "Before Annual Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings",
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    "text": "Sin has undone our wretched race.",
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    "text": "But Jesus has restored",
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   {
    "text": "And brought the sinner face to face",
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    "text": "With his forgiving Lord.",
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    "text": "This we repeat, from year to year,",
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    "text": "And press upon our youth;",
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    "text": "Lord, give them an attentive ear;",
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    "text": "Lord, save them by thy truth.",
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    "text": "Blessings upon the rising race!",
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   {
    "text": "Make this a happy hour,",
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    "text": "According to thy richest grace",
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    "text": "And thine almighty power.",
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    "text": "We feel for your unhappy state,",
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    "text": "(May you regard it too!)",
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    "text": "And would awhile ourselves forget,",
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    "text": "To pour out prayer for you.",
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    "text": "We see, though you perceive it not,",
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    "text": "Th’ approaching awful doom;",
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    "text": "O tremble at the solemn thought,",
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    "text": "And flee the wrath to come!",
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    "text": "Dear Saviour, let this new-born year",
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    "text": "Spread an alarm abroad;",
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    "text": "And cry in every careless ear",
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    "text": "“Prepare to meet thy God!”",
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