In the stillness of the quiet hour When I pause a while to rest, I read about God’s promises From the Book I love the best. It tells me of His wondrous love And of His tender care, He fills my soul with blessing As I linger with Him there. He whispers softly, “Do not […]
There is a time, we know not when, A point we know not where, That marks the destiny of men, For glory or despair. There is a line, by us unseen, That crosses every path; The hidden boundary between God’s patience and His wrath. —Joseph Addison Alexander […]
I stood alone at the bar of God In the hush of the twilight dim, And faced the question that pierced my heart: “What will you do with Him? Crowned or crucified? Which shall it be?” No other choice was offered to me. I looked on the face so marred with tears That were shed […]
Day by day the manna fell; Oh, to learn this lesson well! Still by constant mercy fed, Give me, Lord, my daily bread. Day by day the promise reads, Daily strength for daily needs, Cast foreboding fears away: Take the manna of today. Lord, my times are in Thy hand; All my brightest hopes have […]
Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed—His people are free. Sing—for the pride of the tyrant is broken, His chariots, his horsemen, all splendid and brave, How vain was their boast; for the Lord has but spoken, And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave. Sound the loud timbrel o’er […]
Light after darkness, Gain after loss, Strength after weakness Crown after cross, Sweet after bitter, Song after fears, Home after wandering, Praise after tears. Sheaves after sowing, Sun after rain, Light after mystery, Peace after pain, Joy after sorrow, Calm after blast, Rest after weariness, Sweet rest at last. Never after distant, Gleam after gloom, […]
Some time some ordinary day will come, A busy day, like this, filled to the brim With ordinary tasks—perhaps so full That we have little care or thought for Him. And there will be no hint from silent skies, No sign, no clash of cymbals, roll of drums— And yet that ordinary day will be […]
Nebuchadnezzar, sleeping, saw a vision That vanished with the night, Troubled, he sought the seers and magicians To call it back to light. But none could tell it till Jehovah’s prophet Read him the dream aright: The symbols of the empires of the ages, Their splendor and their might. So have they come—the kingdoms of […]
Show us our need, O Lord; how lost, how helpless, How poor, how sunk in sin our carnal hearts; Show us how vain to change our sad condition, Our best endeavor and our utmost arts; Show us how weak we are, and how dependent, How multiplied defeats our pride abase; And then—O Lord, lest we […]