Between the Lights; Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THY WILL BE DONE. We see not, know not; all our way Is night; with Thee alone is day. From out the torrent's troubled drift, Above the storm our prayer we lift, Thy will be done I The flesh may fail, the heart may faint, But who are we to make complaint, Or dare to plead in times like these The weakness of our love of ease ? Thy will be done ! We take with solemn thankfulness Our burden up, nor ask it less; And count it joy that even we May suffer, serve, or wait for Thee. Thy will be done ! Though dim as yet in tint and line, We trace Thy picture's wise design, And thank Thee that our age supplies The dark relief of sacrifice. Thy will be done ! Strike, Thou the master, we thy keys, The anthem of the destinies ! The minor of Thy loftier strain, Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain, Thy will be done ! John G. Whittier chapter{Section 4January 12. textit{As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. Isa. Ixvi. 13. GOD has not so created the creatures that after creating He abandons them. He loves them, delights in them, is with them; moves and sustains each creature according to its kind. We Christians know that with God creating and sustaining are one thing. Luther. THE TRUE COMFORTER. When me my nearest friends forsake, When I am wretched and forlorn, I refuge with the Father take, My pang to heaven's God is borne; Unchained by words, my silent sigh Steals to the Loving One on high. What deepest, keenest, stirs the heart, What human lips can never speak, What ne'er to human ear can dart, Hath voice to Him who shields the weak; Its mystic force to Him unrolls, The spirit's source, the soul of souls. In Christ's dear name I will outpour My fullest bosom, Lord, to Thee; Learn by sweet ...