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"To read from the Holy Word. / He read of the tears the Savior shed / O'er the grave where Lazarus slept; / A chord was touched in the father's breast, / And he bowed his head and wept. / 'Twas a touching scene, aye, a touching scene, / I remembered it many a day, / How he knelt him down by his stricken wife,
"And asked the goodly man to pray: / But still he knelt with a firm resolve / And promised then and there / By the grace of God and the pastor's prayer / He never would drink again.