Take Time to Pray

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Many a day would brighter be

Author: Grant Colfax Tullar (1930)
Tune: [Many a day would brighter be]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Many a day would brighter be,
Less grievous ten its care,
If we would find some time to spend
In secret pray’r.
Many a trial we’d escape,
Which now besets our way,
If we would just remember
To take time to pray.

Refrain:
Take time to pray!
Take time to pray!
A moment in the morning,
Again at close of day.
Skies will be bright,
Clouds flee away,
If we would just remember
To take time to pray.

2 When we are anxious or perplex’d,
When doubts and fears annoy;
Only to lisp a simple pray’r
Will bring us joy.
“Ask and receive” the promise reads,
Then ask whate’er ye may,
Whose’er would test this promise
Must take time to pray. [Refrain]

3 Pray’r is the key that will unlock
The door to all that’s best;
Knock and it shall swing open wide,
Within find rest.
Peace like a river overflows,
Thro’-out the pray’r-fill’d day,
Let none neglect the blessing,
But take time to pray. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns of Pentecost #46

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Author: Grant Colfax Tullar

Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Wat… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Many a day would brighter be
Title:	Take Time to Pray
Author:	Grant Colfax Tullar (1930)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Take time to pray
Publication Date:	1930
Copyright:	Public Domain