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WHY WEEPEST THOU ?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 11, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 26.

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WHY WEEPEST THOU ?

“I am poor and needy: yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Ps. 40:17.
God careth for thee, weeping one, His hand is round thee now; For thee his best is always done; Oh! then, why weepest thou?
God loves thee well, thou troubled one, Heaven wonders at such love: He loves thee as he loveth none In angel ranks above.
Throughout the earth His earnest eye Hath careful searched, to see What spot it was beneath the sky That best befitted thee.
Yet thou that chosen holy place Profanest now with tears: And when thy soul should sing its praise It weeps its idle fears.
Oh! wherefore, wherefore dost thou wrong His heart who loves thee so, And rob Him of thy tribute song, To nurse thy thankless woe:
If thou must weep, then weep for joy, That God thy Father is: Whose grace does all its powers employ To load thy soul with bliss.
Yes; weep o’er that forgotten love That guards thee every day; Not only crowns thy head above, But blesses all the way. —Sel.