The Blessing Will Descend

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Though oft thy prayers seem all in vain

Author: Alice Jean Cleator
Tune: [Though oft thy prayers seem all in vain]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Tho’ oft thy pray’rs seem all in vain,
Tho’ God may seem no help to lend,
Keep praying on, O Christian heart,
And the blessing will descend!

Refrain:
With a Pentecostal show’r,
O the blessing will descend;
Keep praying on, with old-time pow’r,
And the blessing will descend!

2 The pow’r of pray’r can never die
Till time and all its scenes shall end;
Pray on and, from the throne on high,
O the blessing will descend! [Refrain]

3 The love of God that sleepeth not,
Above the world doth ever bend;
O let thy pray’rs with faith be fraught,
And the blessing will descend! [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of the Gospel No. 3: for use in religious meetings #39

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Author: Alice Jean Cleator

Alice Jean Cleator, 1871-1926 Born: Circa 1871, Andreas, Isle of Man, England. Died: Circa April 27, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio. Cleator’s family evidently emigrated to America in the 1870’s. She was living in Claridon, Ohio, in 1880, & Geauga County, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, & 1920. She taught school in New York City, retiring some time before 1915. --hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

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First Line:	Though oft thy prayers seem all in vain
Title:	The Blessing Will Descend
Author:	Alice Jean Cleator
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	With a Pentecostal shower
Copyright:	Public Domain