Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold By "F. Harald Williams"[i.e. F. W. O. Ward]. First Edition |
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ONE STEP OUT OF SELF INTO CHRIST.
“And immediately the ship was at the land, whither they went.”—John vi. 21.
The Lord came to me in the middle night
In light,
Although I saw and served Him ill, and spake
“Awake!
Gird up thy loins and take thy pilgrim lamp,
For damp
And dark the journey is, and yet not long
With song;
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And raise
Thy heart to Me and never once look back,
Though black
And endless seem the chill and rugged road
Or load.”
Then I arose and trimmed my lamp and went
Content
With Him, and lightly left with praise and staff
The chaff
And husks and evil pleasures of the earth,
That dearth
And want became at length and crying woe;
But, lo,
The first wave of my voyage was the last,
And cast
My weakness on my Saviour and my Friend—
The End.
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