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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 22, 1915

Let Us Give Thanks

By Marianne Farningham

For the discipline of sorrow, For the angel of distress, For the unseen hands that draw us Into greater blessedness; For the lips that close in silence, For the strong hands clasped in prayer, For the strength of heart that suffers, But sinks not in despair; For the penitence and patience That are meek beneath the rod, And for hope’s glad resurrection, We give thee thanks, O God.

For the hope that right shall triumph, For the lifting of the race, For the victories of justice, For a coming day of grace; For the lessons taught by failure, Learned in humbleness and pain; For the call to lofty duties That will come to us again, For the hope that those who trust in God Shall not be put to shame, For the faith that lives in all the world, O God! we praise thy name.

— Marianne Farningham.