A SONG OF TRUST by Gertrude Benedict Curtis

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Sep 11, 1900

A SONG OF TRUST.

By Gertrude Benedict Curtis

I CAN not always see the way that leads To heights above; I sometimes forget He leads me on With hand of love; But yet I know the path must lead me to Immanuel’s land, And when I reach life’s summit, I shall know And understand.

I can not always trace the onward course My ship must take; But, looking backward, I behold afar Its shining wake, Illumined with God’s light of love; and so I onward go, In perfect trust that he who holds the helm The course must know.

I can not always see the plan on which He builds my life; For oft the sound of hammers, blow on blow, The noise of strife, Confuse me till I quite forget he knows And oversees, And that in all details with his good plan My life agrees.

I can not always know and understand The Master’s rule; I can not always do the tasks he gives In life’s hard school; But I am learning with his help to solve Them one by one, And when I can not understand, to say,

“Thy will be done!”

*— Gertrude Benedict Curtis, in Chicago Standard.