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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 621
Gracious Father, Guard Thy Children
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A protective prayer with early Adventist eschatological character, asking God to guard His people through trials until Christ's appearing. The text reflects the 19th-century Adventist 'time of waiting' theology anticipating the Second Coming.
Verse 1
Gracious Father, guard Thy children
From the foe's destructive power;
Save, O save them, Lord, from falling
In this dark and trying hour.
Thou wilt surely prove Thy people,
All our graces must be tried;
But Thy word illumes our pathway,
And in God we still confide.
Verse 2
We are in the time of waiting;
Soon we shall behold our Lord,
Wafted far away from sorrow,
To receive our rich reward.
Keep us, Lord, till Thine appearing,
Pure, unspotted from the world;
Let Thy Holy Spirit cheer us
Till Thy banner is unfurled.
Verse 3
With what joyful exultation
Shall the saints Thy banner see,
When the Lord for whom we've waited
Shall proclaim the jubilee!
Freedom from this world's pollutions;
Freedom from all sin and pain;
Freedom from the wiles of Satan,
And from death's destructive reign.
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