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Rh Thou moon hat een, and all the tars of light, How he has wretled with his God by night. He pray'd that grace in ev'ry heart might dwell, He long'd to ee America excel; He charg'd its youth that ev'ry grace divine Should with full lutre in their conduct hine; That Saviour, which his oul did firt receive, The greatet gift that ev'n a God can give, He freely offer'd to the num'rous throng, That on his lips with lit'ning pleaure hung,

"Take him, ye wretched, for your only good, "Take him ye tarving inners, for your food; "Ye thirty, come to this life-giving tream, "Ye preachers, take him for your joyful theme; "Take him my dear Americans, he aid, "Be your complaints on his kind boom laid: "Take him, ye Africans, he longs for you, "Impartial Saviour is his title due: "Wah'd in the fountain of redeeming blood, "You hall be ons, and kings, and priets to God." Great