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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 4.

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MY BIBLE.

By S. A. Doud

What joy I find before me set in this The Book of books, my guide and counsellor, To lead me onward in the narrow way To yonder heavenly home by Christ prepared, The holy city paved with burnished gold, The portion of the saints. My heart doth swell With love and gratitude as here I read Of holy angels, and their deeds of love, By God sent out with warning messages, That man may know what in the future lies, In time for coming danger to prepare.
Not long have I this book esteemed so dear, A book which all may read and understand. Thy words to me were full of mysteries. To thee my love was feeble; yet thou art The same to-day. But lo! I see, blind guides Aforetime led the blind. I now behold The light of present truth. It brightly shines From all thy pages as I read; and now Thy words I love, God's law I love, and love My fellow men. Mysterious and dark Thou art no longer, but a comfort great, And counsellor, and dear companion, thou. Oh! let me ever by thy words be led. My every evil let me overcome, And to the tree of life at last have right, That when the end thou tell'st us of shall come, I with the joyful ransomed throng may sing The glad new song before the throne of God.
S. A. Doud.
Tuscola Co., Mich.