A Prayer for Guidance by Richard Watson Gilder

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

A Prayer for Guidance

By Richard Watson Gilder

Lead me, yea, lead me deeper into life, This suffering, human life wherein Thou liv'st And breathest still, and hold'st Thy way divine. 'Tis here, O pitying Christ, where Thee I seek, Here where the strife is fiercest; where the sun Beats down upon the highway thronged with men, And in the raging mart. O deeper lead My soul into the living world of souls Where Thou dost move!

But lead me, Man divine, Where'er Thou will'st, only that I may find At the long journey's end Thy image there, And grow more like to it. For art not Thou The human shadow of infinite Love, That made and fills the endless universe? The very Word of Him, the unseen, unknown, Eternal God that rules the summer flower, And all the worlds that people starry space? — Richard Watson Gilder.