I know I shared this one last year but it’s been in my mind lately as I’ve been editing devotions for a book being put together by a friend of Jon’s family. I wish some of lines of this hymn could be painted and plastered on walls of churches because some of them are so useful in talking about how to support each other.<\/p>\n
Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God;
\nWill you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the Word?
\nAll is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down;
\nBrethren, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.<\/p>\nBrethren, see poor sinners round you slumbering on the brink of woe;
\nDeath is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go?
\nSee our fathers and our mothers, and our children sinking down;
\nBrethren, pray and holy manna will be showered all around.<\/p>\nSisters, will you join and help us? Moses?? sister aided him;
\nWill you help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin?
\nTell them all about the Savior, tell them that He will be found;
\nSisters, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around.<\/p>\nIs there here a trembling jailer, seeking grace, and filled with tears?
\nIs there here a weeping Mary, pouring forth a flood of tears?
\nBrethren, join your cries to help them; sisters, let your prayers abound;
\nPray, Oh pray that holy manna may be scattered all around.<\/p>\nLet us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too;
\nLet us love and pray for sinners, till our God makes all things new.
\nThen He??ll call us home to Heaven, at His table we??ll sit down;
\nChrist will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.
\n(HT: Net Hymnal<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe version I found by the Gospel Plowboys<\/a> is, I think, most close to what it sounds like done in a congregation.<\/p>\n