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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 36.

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The Home Circle.

By M. D.

GATHER THE SUNLIGHT.

Oh, the sunbeam’s magic power! It brightens all the earth, Filling all hearts with gladness, Giving all beauty birth.
Yet the same bright beams are falling Through the void without our air, Their golden gleams diffusing No warmth or brightness there.
And wherefore those outer regions So dreary and dark alway? No power to stay the sunbeams On its shining path have they.
Is it thus we are wrapped in shadow While the light of a Saviour’s love Is falling freely, gladly, Our gloomy path above?
In vain are the rays from Heaven, The message of holy cheer, If the soul stay not the sunbeams That would scatter its doubt and fear.
The grasp of a living faith— This must the promise claim, This gather the heavenly radiance In a risen Saviour’s name.
Away with the doubts we cherish! Will he not faithful prove Who hath sealed with his precious life-blood The message of his love?
Who treasure the beams of blessing, Great shall be their reward,— Life’s desert wastes shall blossom, A garden of the Lord.
M. D.