<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Effort</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat<br>Where Jesus answers prayer;<br>There humbly fall before His feet,<br>For none can perish there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy promise is my only plea,<br>With this I venture nigh;<br>Thou callest burdened souls to Thee,<br>And such, O Lord, am I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bowed down beneath a load of sin,<br>By Satan sorely pressed,<br>By wars without, and fears within,<br>I come to Thee for rest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be Thou my shield and hiding-place,<br>That, sheltered near Thy side,<br>I may my fierce Accuser face<br>And tell him Thou hast died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O wondrous Love! to bleed and die,<br>To bear the cross and shame,<br>That guilty sinners such as I<br>Might plead Thy gracious name! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor tempest-tossed soul, be still,<br>My promised grace receive;<br>'Tis Jesus speaks--I must, I will,<br>I can, I do, believe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421602" data-title="The Effort de John Newton" data-description="Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat Where Jesus answers prayer; There humbly fall before His feet, For none can perish there. Thy promise is my only plea, With this I venture nigh; Thou callest burdened souls to Thee, And such, O Lord, am I. Bow..."></div> </div> </div>

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