If Thou Hadst Known! by Alice Jane Muirhead

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 21, 1904

If Thou Hadst Known!

By Alice Jane Muirhead

“If thou hadst known!” so spake the Saviour Lord To those who spurned his pure, life-giving word As o’er Jerusalem his tears were poured— “If thou hadst known!”

“If thou hadst known!” heaven-chosen, favored race, What meant the lifting on thee of his face, Thou couldst not have despised such wondrous grace, “If thou hadst known!”

Lord, make us know, “while it is called to-day,” The things that to our peace belong, and may We never hear thee, sorrowing o’er us, say, “If thou hadst known!”

Salvation seeking only in thy cross, May those eternal things our hearts engross, For which we surely must count all things loss, Did we but know.

Though now at best we know thee but in part, Yet all we can receive of what thou art, Do thou reveal to each believing heart, That we may know.

— Alice Jane Muirhead.