The Home Circle | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1881

The Home Circle.

IN THE SHADOW.

I WALK through darkened paths, yet know My Father marks the way I go; I cannot see his tender smile, But feel his clasping hand the while; And since he heeds the sparrow's fall, I trust his love, in spite of all.

Borne through the dark by loving arms, I sometimes shrink with vague alarms, Yet closer cling, that I may hear The voice that whispers in mine ear. "Oh, trembling soul," it says to me, "Rest in the love that clings to thee."

I cannot tell if long the way By which I go, through night to day; But, soon or late, I know my feet Will walk in sunshine, broad and sweet; And, soon or late, before mine eyes The radiant hills of peace uprise. —Sel.