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SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER
W. W. Walford, 1842 W.B.
Rradbury 1861
Sweet hour of
prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a
world of care,
And bids me at my
Father’s throne
Makes all my wants
and wishes known.
In seasons of
distress and grief
My soul has often
found relief,
And oft escaped the
tempter’s snare,
By thy return, sweet
hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of
prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my
petition bear
To Him whose truth
and faithfulness
Engage the waiting
soul to bless;
And since He bids me
seek His face,
Believe His word,
and trust His grace,
I’ll cast on Him my
ev’ry care,
And wait for thee,
sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of
prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
May I thy
consolation share,
Till, from Mount
Pisgah’s lofty height,
I view my home and
take my flight.
This robe of flesh
I’ll drop and rise
To seize the
everlasting prize,
And shout, while
passing thro’ the air,
“Fare-well,
fare-well, sweet hour of prayer!”
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Jesus went a little farther
and fell on the ground and prayed, ”Abba, Father, all things are
possible unto Thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not
what I will, but what thou wilt”.
And He cometh, and findeth
Peter, James and John sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon,
sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour?
Watch ye and pray, lest ye
enter into temptation. The
spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is week. (Mark, 14: 35-38)
But when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father, which is in secret: and they Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly. (Mathew, 6: 6)
Author: William W. Walford,
1772-1850
Prayer is communion with God. Sweet Hour of Prayer” is believed to have been written in
1842 by William W. Walford, an obscure and blind lay preacher and
owner of a small trinket shop in the village of Coleshill,
Warwickshire, England. One
day a Coleshill Congregational clergyman, Thomas Salmon visited
William W. Walford. Walford showed Salmon his poem on the subject of prayer and
requested him to notate it for him.
Three years later when Salmon visited United States, showed
this poem to the editor of the New York Observer.
The Poem first appeared in the September 13, 1845 issue.
Later the text was published in a hymnal in 1859, in a
Baptist edition of Church Melodies, compiled by Thomas Hastings and
Robert Turnbull.
Composer: William B.
Bradbury, 1816-1868
The noted American composer
William Batchelder Bradbury composed the tune for “Sweet Hour of
Prayer”, in 1851. In the same year the text and Bradbury’s tune
appeared in a hymnal collection, the Golden Chain”. Soon people
all over the world started singing this magnificent song.
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