Bass2 Prayer

is The Soul's Sincere Desire

    
James Montgomery (1771-1854) Sally DeFord

           
    
 = 98 6
 = 9846  = 9348  = 98 50 52 54

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             
      
Prayer is the sim plest form of speech that in fant lips can try,

 
56 58 60 62 64

       
Prayer, the sub lim est strains that reach the Maj es ty on high,

                    
 = 98


72 74 76 78 80 84 94 96

            
an gels in their


           
98 100 102  = 93 104 106

songs re joice, And cry, "Be hold, he prays!"

 
                    
108  = 98 110 112 114 116 118

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made on earth a lone The Ho ly Spi rit pleads, And Je sus at the Fa ther's

                  
120 122 124 126 128

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throne for sin ners in ter cedes. O thou by whom we come to God The Life, the

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                     
 = 93


130 132 134 136 138

      
 
Truth, the Way! The path of prayer thy self has trod; Lord,  teach us how to pray.

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140 144 146  = 90 148

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Lord,  teach us how to pray.

SallyDeFord