God’s Wondrous Care by WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 21, 1910

God’s Wondrous Care

By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

“I will hedge up thy way with thorns.” Hosea 2:6.

THE thorns which sin hath brought to curse and blight The Master takes and makes a hedge therewith, That when thou turn aside to left or right, Their piercing may to thee a warning give.

The bleeding heart that wounded cries in pain, The stricken soul that grieves to be forgiven, Have not in sorrow called to God in vain; Their grief an earnest is of hope from heaven.

O Saviour, pierced and bleeding on the tree! Why shouldst thou, Man of sorrows, suffer so? “Thy sin and curse are nailed to Calvary,— All thine iniquity, thy grief, and woe.”

Then sorrow not as those in grim despair, For grief hath lost for thee its deadly sting; But mourn thy sin hath nailed thy Saviour there— The Lamb of God, a sinless offering.

Nor crucify afresh the Son of God By any conscious word or act of wrong: Keep in the middle of the path he trod, Singing forevermore redemption’s song.

Portland, Ore.