Devotional Verses Founded on and Illustrative of select Texts of Scripture [by Bernard Barton] |
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MOURNFUL RECOLLECTIONS. |
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MOURNFUL RECOLLECTIONS.
“O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head, and when
by his light I walked through darkness.”
—Job, xxix. 2, 3.
Mournful it seems in darken'd days
To turn to hours more blest and bright,
When God's own glory shed its rays
Around us,—making darkness light.
To turn to hours more blest and bright,
When God's own glory shed its rays
Around us,—making darkness light.
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When we were kept by Him! and knew,—
Through faith, which doubt could never dim,
What His eternal arm can do
For those who love and trust in Him.
Through faith, which doubt could never dim,
What His eternal arm can do
For those who love and trust in Him.
It may be painful thus to turn
To favour'd seasons—past and gone,
And from our present darkness learn
The value of the Light that shone.
To favour'd seasons—past and gone,
And from our present darkness learn
The value of the Light that shone.
Yet is it good to know from whom
That light divine alone could flow;
And merciful may be the gloom
Which teaches us its source to know.
That light divine alone could flow;
And merciful may be the gloom
Which teaches us its source to know.
While yet 'mid Eden's beauties rare
Our parents sojourn'd,—they might deem
Each charm its Maker lavish'd there
Was their's by empery supreme.
Our parents sojourn'd,—they might deem
Each charm its Maker lavish'd there
Was their's by empery supreme.
But from its bowers by sin exil'd,
Were they not taught, in grief and pain,
The woman's Seed, the heaven-born Child—
Alone could make them their's again?
Were they not taught, in grief and pain,
The woman's Seed, the heaven-born Child—
Alone could make them their's again?
May those who mourn in sin's dark night
Glory not their's, now pass'd away,
To Jesus turn, the Truth, the Light,
Whose love can make their darkness day.
Glory not their's, now pass'd away,
To Jesus turn, the Truth, the Light,
Whose love can make their darkness day.
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