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A PRAYER FOR HELP

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 11, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 2.

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A PRAYER FOR HELP.

By Helen A. Steinhauer

BY HELEN A. STEINHAUER.
Send comfort down from Thy right hand To cheer me in this barren land, Great God, or I shall die!
'Tis not enough to know that Thou In Heaven's courts art seated now; For I here prostrate lie.
Prone on the earth,—weighed down by care; By grief beyond my strength to bear,— Behold Thy follower, Lord!
In vain I strive on Thee to lay The burden of each weary day, And trust Thy promised word.
Too weak my faith, too faint my heart; Altho from it I fain would part, The load remaineth there.
Like stricken deer I fain would hide From all the prying world outside What I alone must bear.
No human heart to share my woe— No love to soothe to gentler flow These bitter, scalding tears.
The sleepless anguish of my breast, The cruel pain, the drear unrest, The torture of my fears
Are known to One—and only One! To Jesus, God's beloved Son, To whom for help I cry:
Send comfort down from Thy right hand To cheer me in this barren land, Great God, or I shall die!