Main message: Treat the special hour of prayer as a special time, a place, and a mediator.

Bible references:

• V1. "Father's throne" (Hebrews 4:16)

• V3. "I'll cast on Him my ev'ry care" (Psalm 55:22)

• V4. "Mount Pisgah" (Deuteronomy 34:1)

Keywords: Sweet hour of prayer, relief, thy return, joy, bliss, place, face, bear, bless, consolation, Mount Pisgah, flight, rise, prize, farewell

Interpretation notes:

• The main message ‘sweet hour of prayer’ is repeated twice at the opening with an ascending scale. 

• ]The melody goes down after the opening. 

• This phrase pattern appears in the first, second, and last systems. 

• In the third system, the melody reaches high D two times (m. 9 and 11). 

• The hymn is in 6/8 meter.