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The Reconciling Power
O Power! that waits not on man's feeble will,Though granted still to faith, and hope, and prayer;
Thy gracious purposes in us fulfil,
And may we in thy favor ever share.
Vain is the people's strength, the ruler's power;
The statesman's wisdom and his arts are vain;
They hasten not on earth the blessed hour,
Which thou, in thine own keeping, doth retain.
The world, with its vain shows, doth souls divide,
Renew in all the simple heart of youth;
That friend from friend, by passion sundered wide,
May live again the life of love and truth.
Still mightier energies thou hast in store,
Than those with which the world has yet been blest;
Enduring peace, ne'er known on earth before,
The nations' Sabbath, the Millennial Rest.
O'er our wide land thy quickening influence send,
That, as one people, we may soon rejoice;
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Subdued and healed by thine all-powerful voice!
Poem No. 378; February 1867
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