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GRATITUDE FOR DELIVERANCE. 31
their links in that very extremity of peril ; and u strange courage sprang up, and the soul, driven to one. lone trust, took hold of the pierced hand of the Re deemer, and found it strong to save.
That night the prayer and sacred music, which reg ularly hallowed our hour of retirement, should have been more deeply surcharged with devout gratitude tluin ever ; snatched as we had been from the devour ing flood, and from " the evil time, that snareth the sons of men, when it falleth suddenly upon them."
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