The Cyber Hymnal ‎#9366

9366. Prayer, Sweet Prayer

1 How sweet is the blessing
Our hearts find in prayer!
What comfort and peace it inspires!
A refuge in sorrow,
A solace in care,
A shield in temptation’s fierce fires.

Refrain:
Prayer, prayer,
Balm for wounded hearts;
Prayer, prayer,
Shield for Satan’s darts;
Prayer, prayer,
Safeguard all the way,
Till life’s rugged path leads up
To realms of day.

2 How blest the assurance,
When trials assail,
That prayer brings us strength to o’ercome;
That our pleadings for succor
Shall ever prevail,
Till at length we shall reach that blest home. [Refrain]

2 The young and the agèd
Rejoice in its power,
The weak and the weary at heart;
Thro’ life’s toilsome journey,
In death’s trying hour
Its promises will not depart. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet is the blessing
• Title: Prayer, Sweet Prayer
• Author: Charles M. Lewis
• Refrain First Line: Prayer, prayer
• Language: English
• Source: Songs of Love and Praise No. 4, by John R. Sweney, Henry Gilmour, and J. Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia: John J. Hood, 1897)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [How sweet is the blessing]
• Composer: Samuel Monroe Vansant
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: Public Domain