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What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat
Yet who that knows the worth of prayer,
But wishes to be often there
Prayer makes the darken'd cloud withdraw,

Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder, And Earth's bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break,
Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, thereunder: Africa
long ages sleeping,