Enough to Show the Way by George J. Romanes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1908

Enough to Show the Way

By George J. Romanes

Amen: now lettest Thou Thy servant, Lord, Depart in peace, according to Thy word. Although mine eyes may not have fully seen Thy great salvation, yet surely they have seen Enough of sorrow and enough of sight To show the way from darkness into light: And Thou hast brought me, through a wilderness of pain, To love the sorest paths if soonest they attain.

Enough of sorrow for the heart to cry, “Not for myself, nor for my kind am I;” Enough of sight for reason to disclose— “The more I learn the less my knowledge grows.” Ah! not as citizens of this one sphere, But aliens militant we sojourn here, Invested by the hosts of evil and of wrong Till Thou shalt come again, with all Thine angel throng.

As Thou hast found me ready to Thy call, Which stationed me to watch the outer wall, And, quitting joys and hopes that once were mine, To pace with patient steps this narrow line, O, may it be, that coming soon or late, Thou still shalt find Thy soldier at the gate! Who, then, may follow Thee till sight needs not to prove, And faith will be dissolved in knowledge of Thy love.

— George J. Romanes.