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Browsing topics in Songs for the Sanctuary: or hymns and tunes for Christian Worship

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TopicSub-TopicHymnFirst Line
AdvocateChrist our#556Weary of wandering from my God
AdvocateChrist our#721Jesus! thou art the sinner's Friend
AdvocateChrist our#897He lives! the great Redeemer lives!
AdvocateChrist our#929Arise, my soul, arise
Afflictions#535Oh, that I could repent
Afflictions#693O Love Divine! that stooped to share
Afflictions#961My God, my Father, while I stray
Afflictions#962I bless thee, Lord, for sorrows sent
Afflictions#963I cannot always trace the way
Afflictions#964Oh, deem not they are blest alone
Afflictions#965If life in sorrow must be spent
Afflictions#966Thy will be done! I will not fear
Afflictions#967My times of sorrow and of joy
Afflictions#968When musing sorrow weeps the past
Afflictions#969It is the Lord—enthroned in light
Afflictions#970O thou whose mercy guides my way
Afflictions#971I cannot call affliction sweet
Afflictions#972When grief and anguish press me down
Afflictions#973Affliction is a stormy deep
Afflictions#974When waves of trouble round me swell

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