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<h2>GOD OF THE PROPHETS, BLESS THE PROPHETS’ SONS</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.” 2 Kings 2:9</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_o_wortman_d.jpg" alt="Denis Wortman (1835-1922)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="130" height="191.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_o_wortman_d.html" target="_blank">Denis Wortman</a>, 1884. Wortman wrote this hymn in the centennial year of his <em>alma mater</em>, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Toulon,” Genevan <em>Psalter</em>, 1551 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_t_o_toulon.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>God of the prophets! Bless the prophets’ sons,<br>
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Elijah’s mantle o’er Elisha cast;<br>
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Each age its solemn task may claim but once;<br>
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Make each one nobler, stronger, than the last.</p>
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<p>Anoint them prophets! Make their ears attent<br>
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To Thy divinest speech; their hearts awake<br>
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To human need; their lips make eloquent<br>
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To gird the right and every evil break.</p>
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<p>Anoint them priests! Strong intercessors, they<br>
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For pardon, and for charity and peace.<br>
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Ah, if with them the world might, now astray,<br>
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Find in our Lord from all its woes release!</p>
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<p>Anoint them kings; aye, kingly kings, O Lord.<br>
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Anoint them with the Spirit of Thy Son.<br>
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Theirs not a jeweled crown, a blood stained sword;<br>
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Theirs, by sweet love, for Christ a kingdom won.</p>
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<p>Make them apostles, heralds of Thy cross,<br>
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Forth may they go to tell all realms Thy grace;<br>
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Inspired of Thee, may they count all but loss,<br>
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And stand at last with joy before Thy face.</p>
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<p>O mighty age of prophet kings, return!<br>
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O truth, O faith, enrich our urgent time!<br>
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Lord Jesus Christ, again with us sojourn;<br>
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A weary world awaits Thy reign sublime.</p>
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