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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 11.

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No Sweeter Word

By W. T. Sleeper

“I WILL not leave you desolate.” John 14:18, R. V.
No sweeter word than this can find a tongue, When strength and courage fail with harp unstrung, “I will not leave you desolate;” A precious word which poets love to sing, To trembling age a word most comforting, “I will not leave you desolate.”
When loving friends and social joys depart, And troubles come to overwhelm the heart, “I will not leave you desolate;” When night is coming on that hides the sun, And weary limbs remind you “day is done,” “I will not leave you desolate.”
O blessed word! I hear it once again— The service ended—as a sweet “amen,” “I will not leave you desolate;” Ling’ring awhile until the Father call, I catch the vanishing recessional, “I will not leave you desolate.”
— W. T. Sleeper, in the Observer.