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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 11

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RESIGNATION.

By E. E. SPURGERS

“If it be possible let this cup pass from me.”
Let this cup pass, my Father; I am sinking, In the deep waters which surround my soul. And bitter grows the draught which I am drinking, And higher rise the waves that round me roll.
Forsake me not in this my need extremest; Let not thy strengthening hand elude my grasp; I know thy love even when thou harshest seemest; Father most merciful! let this cup pass!
Life hath not lain her hand upon me lightly, I have known sorrow, disappointment, pain; Have seen hopes clouded when they beamed most brightly, And false love fade, and falser friendship wane.
But now fresh chains about my heart are linking, And to my lips is pressed a fuller cup. And from the draught my shuddering soul is shrinking, Father! I cannot, cannot drink it up!
What have I said? Will not thy grace sustain me? Is thine arm shortened that it cannot save? Powerless indeed if thou, my God, disdain me. I can do all things with the help I crave.
Haste thee to help me; that on thee depending I may have strength to say, “Thy will be done.” If this cup may not pass, thine angel sending, Aid me, as thou of oldst did aid thy Son.
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