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I: Does it not grief and wonder move, / To think of Israel's shameful fall, / Who needed miracles to prove / Whether the Lord was God or Baal?
II: Methinks I see Elijah stand, / His features glow with love and zeal.
In faith and prayer he lifts his hand, / And makes to Heaven his great appeal.
III: "O God! if I thy servant am, / If 'tis thy message fills my heart, / Now glorify thy holy name, / And show this people who thou art."
IV: He spake, and lo a sudden flame / Consumed the wood, the dust, the stone.
The people struck, at once proclaim --
"The Lord is God, the Lord alone."
V: Like him we mourn an awful day, / When more for Baal than God appear.
Like him, believers, let us pray, / And may the God of Israel hear.
VI: Lord, if thy servant speak thy truth, / If he indeed is sent by thee, / Confirm the word to all our youth, / And let them thy salvation see.
VII: Now may the Spirit's holy fire / Pierce every heart that hears thy word, / Consume each hurtful vain desire, / And make them know thou art the Lord!