p. 1 | Safe in a Father’s Arms by Chauncy Hare Townshend

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1901

Safe in a Father’s Arms

By Chauncy Hare Townshend

Oh, what a load of struggle and distress Falls off before the cross! The feverish care; The wish that we were other than we are; The sick regrets; the yearnings numberless; The thought, “This might have been,” so apt to press On the reluctant soul; even past despair, Past sin itself — all — all is turned to fair, Aye, to a scheme of ordered happiness, So soon as we love God, or rather, know That God loves us! . . . Accepting the great pledge Of His concern for all our wants and woe, We cease to tremble upon danger’s edge! While varying troubles form and burst anew, Safe in a Father’s arms, we smile as infants do! — Chauncy Hare Townshend.