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St. Stephen's Day.

Lord, if we suffer for Thy sake to testify for Thee, with joy our crosses let us take, Thine own disciples be. Enable us in steadfast love our upward look to keep, by faith to penetrate above, and faith’s reward to reap. May we by faith behold Thy seat, as faithful Stephen saw, with rev’rence bow before Thy feet, worship with holy awe. So let Thy Holy Ghost descend; our precious inmate be, our constant, our unchanging Friend, to lead us after Thee! For hate, to make us yield back love, by His Almighty aid, as holy Stephen gazed above, and for his murd’rers prayed; Jesus! Thy own first martyr’s trust, our only pleader Thou! Our Mediator, Holy, Just: before Thy throne we bow.

1 Lord, if we suffer for Thy sake to testify for Thee,
with joy our crosses let us take, Thine own disciples be.
2 Enable us in steadfast love our upward look to keep,
by faith to penetrate above, and faith’s reward to reap.
3 May we by faith behold Thy seat, as faithful Stephen saw,
with rev’rence bow before Thy feet, worship with holy awe.
4 So let Thy Holy Ghost descend; our precious inmate be,
our constant, our unchanging Friend, to lead us after Thee!
5 For hate, to make us yield back love, by His Almighty aid,
as holy Stephen gazed above, and for his murd’rers prayed;
6 Jesus! Thy own first martyr’s trust,
our only pleader Thou!
Our Mediator, Holy, Just:
before Thy throne we bow.

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Text attr. Eliza Humphreys
Tune Detroit
melody from Supplement to Kentucky Harmony, 1820

St. Stephen's Day.

Grant, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first Martyr St. Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succor all those that suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.