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Ezekiel saw the wheel
'Way up in the middle of the air;
Ezekiel saw the wheel,
'Way in the middle of the air;
And the little wheel run by faith,
And the big wheel run by the grace of God;
'Tis a wheel in a wheel,
'Way in the middle of the air.

As Webb rendered this song of simple faith, Mary witnessed what seemed to be a miracle: Hester's shoulders moved from side to side to the rhythm, while her lips formed the words of the stanza.