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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 61.

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Alone With God

By R. Hare

ALONE with God amid the twilight shading, When night falls o’er the dim and distant hills, When moon and stars take up their revelation, And holy calm the waiting spirit fills.
Alone with God when morning glories kindle Their orient splendors in the distant sky, To read from day’s first painted cloud-steeps, And learn “the everlasting God is nigh.”
Alone with God when duty’s hand would beckon To earnest toil in distant field or plain; To feel his presence giving strength and courage, And in communion finding rest again.
Alone with God when midnight’s solemn stillness Has hushed the din and discord here below; Then faith, in quiet, undisturbed devotion, Would, bowing, wait his perfect will to know.
Alone with God, O sweet and blessed communion, In which my soul its blessedness may trace, And ever wait in holy adoration, Till I shall know and see him face to face!
—R. Hare, in Signs of the Times (Australian).