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A HYMN OF THE WILDERNESS by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: WHEN TEMPTATIONS THRONG AND PRESS
Last Line: NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE, BE DONE!
Subject(s): TEMPTATION;
When temptations throng and press
Through a lonely wilderness,
In my doubt and deadly fear,
Jesus, Saviour, be Thou near:
Thou hast all temptation known,
All temptations overthrown.

The First Temptation:

When the sky is brass o'erhead,
And I fear for daily bread,
With the fullness of Thy peace
Bid my fainting folly cease;
Though the wilderness is bare,
Thou wilt spread a table there.

The Second Temptation:

When ambitions bid me stray
From the strait and narrow way,
Thou, the Lord of all the earth,
Teach me what is better worth.
Show the gain of loving loss,
And the glory of the cross.

The Third Temptation:

When the very work I do
Brings a subtle danger too,
And I fain would speed alone
In a pathway of my own,
Then, O self-denying Son,
Not my will, but Thine, be done!



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