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In Quietness

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 28.

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In Quietness

By Marianne Farningham

“He shall not strive nor cry.”
WHY is the Master so patient yet In the world where wrong is wrought? Takes he no heed of the riot of sin While his will is treated as naught? Could he not thunder his judgments down Where the men his power defy? O, the Master is great through his gentleness — “He shall not strive nor cry.”
Not in the whirlwind, not in the storm, But the still, small voice of love Is his power to reach to the world's hard heart, And its rebel will to move; He finds his way through the silences, He hears the prayer of a sigh; In wooing whispers the Master pleads — “He shall not strive nor cry.”
How does the kingdom of heaven grow? Never through war and noise, But as the snowdrops do in spring, And as love through household joys. No blatant trumpet, no rush of war, Proclaims the Christ-King nigh. Though the kingdoms of earth shall all be his, “He shall not strive nor cry.”
He shall not fail, nor discouraged be, For him the isles shall wait. And he shall reign ever from sea to sea, All nations shall call him great. And thus shall his kingdom be ushered in, As the light in the eastern sky, He shall save the world by the might of love, “He shall not strive nor cry.”
— Marianne Farningham.