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Portraits from Scripture by Nathan Pitchford
 Jesus Welcoming Home a Martyr 
Cast off thine anguish, thy lingering pain;Still all the troubles astir in thy breast;Hardships long suffered have not been in vain:Thou hast been faithful – enter thy rest.Great was thy love, O dear servant, for me:And yet thou didst suffer; high was the cost;Thou drank of the anguish that I bare for thee,When thou wast unseeing, incapable, lost.Long was thy journey, thy labor most hard:Thy gospel was slighted by Adam’s fall’n race;Thy body was broken and battered and scarredBy those whom thou strovest to tell of my grace;But was I not with thee each step of the way,Comforting, strengthening in thy distress?Gave I not mercy and peace day by day?Humbled I not those who strove to oppress?I savored as incense thy heart’s prayers and sighs;Upheld thee each time thou didst fall, my dear son;I wiped every tear from thy sorrowing eyes;I never forsook thee, my child – well done.Cast off corruption, mortality, death:As thou hast labored, so shalt thou be blest.
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