Family Prayers

<p><strong>Family Prayers</strong> <em><u>'''This, then, is how you should pray:'''</u></em></p><p> [[Family Prayers.]] </p><p> [[The&nbsp;throne of grace]]</p><p> [[Calvary's stupendous scene!]]</p><p> [[We meekly knock at mercy's gate]]</p><p> [[As we pass along the miry paths of life]]</p><p> [[We are tied and bound by its enslaving chain!]]</p><p>&nbsp; [[Our tears of penitence cannot remove one blot!]]</p><p> [[The sword of Divine justice buried in His sinless heart!]]</p><p> [[We confess with shame]]</p><p> [[It is the vile monster!]]</p><p> [[May we read the melting of Your heart towards us]]</p><p> [[Shall we, then, flaunt proudly in Your sight?]]</p><p> [[We would grope and stumble]] in the bewildering paths of ignorance and error!</p><p> [[We offer His blood to pay the debt]]</p><p> [[Your boundless stores!]]</p><p> [[Cast them into the deep ocean of His all-cleansing blood!]]</p><p> [[Our besotted faculties are dull to comprehend You!]]</p><p> [[Shall our eyes be dry?]]</p><p> [[To follow You fully is heaven—before&nbsp;heaven is reached!]]</p><p> [[Hold me up!]]</p><p> [[The&nbsp;old man&nbsp;yet lives!]]</p><p> [[Our hearts are Yours!]]</p><p> [[While we mourn over our many maladies]]</p><p> [[This Heavenly Visitor]]</p><p> [[Soon our last grain will fall through the hour-glass!]]</p><p> [[A little speck, a breath, a vanishing shadow, a fading flower]]</p><p>&nbsp; [[May we see our sins]]</p><p> [[The chosen pleasure-ground of our souls!]]</p><p> [[Let every&nbsp;Agag&nbsp;be hewed to pieces!]]</p><p> [[The&nbsp;mirror&nbsp;of eternity!]]</p><p> [[We now hide ourselves in our great Redeemer's wounds]]</p><p> [[It would fall short of our vast debt to You!]]</p><p> [[Lest the wily serpent should sneak in!]]</p><p> [[Permit us to commend their&nbsp;wretchedness&nbsp;to You]]</p><p> [[We cling to Your saving cross!]]</p><p><br></p><p> [[Category:Prayer]]</p>