Nearly all his hymns are prayers--prayers full of the tenderest appeals, as if his faith trembled in approaching the Golden Gate. The following is given as an instance:
| To Him who bends to hear the weak, I bring my simple plea: In every pain and sore distress, Turn not away from me! | | Although unworthy to enjoy Thy presence full and free, Deserving but to be cast out-- Turn not away from me! | | When my acquaintance, one by one, Leave me in misery; And friend and comrade stand afar, Turn not away from me! | | 106 For Thy dear cross and precious death On lonely Calvary, And for Thine intercession now, Turn not away from me! | | When I must face the stormy flood, Where many sorrows be; And through the valley walk alone, Turn not away from me! | | When Thou shalt come the second time, With awful majesty, To judge the living and the dead, Turn not away from me! | |