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<h2>HOW ARE THY SERVANTS BLEST, O LORD!</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching.” Luke 12:37</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_a_d_addison_j.jpg" alt="Joseph Addison (1672-1719)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="132.666666666667" height="216.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_d_addison_j.html" target="_blank">Joseph Addison</a>, in <em>The Spectator</em> (London, England), September 20, 1712. The hymn followed an essay on “Greatness” as a source of pleasure to the imagination, with special reference to the ocean; it was introduced with:</p>
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<p>Great painters do not only give us Landskips of Gardens, Groves, and Meadows, but very often employ their Pencils on Sea-Pieces. I could wish you would follow their example. If this small Sketch may deserve a Place among your Works, I shall accompany it with a Divine ode, made by a Gentleman upon the Conclusion of his Travels.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Praetorius,” <em>Harmoniae Hymnorum Scholae Gorlicensis</em>, 1599 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_p_praetori.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>How are Thy servants blest, O Lord!<br>
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How sure is their defense!<br>
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Eternal wisdom is their guide,<br>
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Their help Omnipotence.</p>
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<p>From all our griefs and fears, O Lord,<br>
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Thy mercy sets us free;<br>
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While in the confidence of prayer<br>
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Our hearts take hold on Thee.</p>
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<p>In midst of dangers, fears and death,<br>
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Thy goodness we adore;<br>
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We praise Thee for Thy mercies past,<br>
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And humbly hope for more</p>
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<p>Our life, while Thou preservest life,<br>
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A sacrifice shall be;<br>
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And death, when death shall be our lot,<br>
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Shall join our souls to Thee.</p>
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