Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul - Unknown

I asked the Lord that I might grow

In faith and love and every grace;

Might more of his salvation know,

And seek more earnestly his face.

'Twas He who taught me thus to pray,

And he, I trust, has answer'd prayer;

But it has been in such a way

As almost drove me to despair.

I hop'd that in some favor'd hour