p. 1 | ONE STEP MORE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

ONE STEP MORE.

WHAT though before me it is dark,\nToo dark for me to see?\nI ask but light for one step more;\n'Tis quite enough for me.

Each little humble step I take,\nThe gloom clears from the next;\nSo though 'tis very dark beyond,\nI never am perplexed.

And if sometimes the mist hangs close,\nSo close I fear to stray,\nPatient I wait a little while,\nAnd soon it clears away.

I would not see my further path,\nFor mercy veils it so.\nMy present steps might harder be\nDid I the future know.

It may be that my path is rough,\nThorny, and hard and steep;\nAnd, knowing this, my strength might fail\nThrough fear and terror deep.

It may be that it winds along\nA smooth and flowery way;\nBut seeing this I might despise\nThe journey of to-day.

Perhaps my path is very short,\nMy journey nearly done,\nAnd I might tremble at the thought\nOf ending it so soon.

Or, if I saw a weary length\nOf road that I must wend,\nFainting I'd think, "My feeble powers\nWill fail me ere the end."

And so I do not wish to see\nMy journey or its length;\nAssured that, through my Father's love,\nEach step will bring its strength.

Thus step by step I onward go,\nNot looking far before;\nTrusting that I shall always have\nLight for just "one step more."\n-British Herald.