Give More Time to Prayer

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Would you be strong in the Lord alway

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Would you be strong in the Lord alway]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Would you be strong in the Lord alway?
Would you have vict’ry from day to day?
Would you abide in the narrow way?
Give more time to prayer!

Refrain:
pray, my brother, pray
More and more each passing day.
Would you the fullness of blessing share?
Give more time to prayer!

2 Pray to the Lord as the moments fly,
Pray to the Lord as the hours go by;
Pray to the Father who lives on high;
Give more time to prayer! [Refrain]

3 Would you be made in your hope secure?
Would you alway in the faith endure?
Would you be kept from the evil pure?
Give more time to prayer! [Refrain]

4 Would you inherit a mansion grand?
Would you make sure of the better land?
Take firmer hold of the Master’s hand.
Give more time to prayer! [Refrain]

Source: Gospel Herald in Song #33

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Would you be strong in the Lord alway
Title:	Give More Time to Prayer
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Pray, my brother, pray
Copyright:	Public Domain