GOD'S WISER LOVE by Mrs. M. G. Tompkins

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1880

GOD'S WISER LOVE.

By Mrs. M. G. Tompkins

THE mother's anxious care would save her child From every danger, every pain or ill; Would build a barrier of her love to shield, And with the fairest things life's measure fill; But who can tell what endless grief and loss Might come to these, saved from the dreaded cross?

God's wiser love would ever lead the blind, By rough ascent, but safer from the snare; Would ever teach the wayward heart to find A truer joy, a richer gain, in care. No painless life could prove his wondrous love, No easy path can lead to rest above. —Mrs. M. G. Tompkins.