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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1882

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 59, No. 12.

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ASSURANCE

By Dwight Williams

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Rom. 8:28.
When ruin falls on noble piles, The ivy creeps, and o'er them smiles; And beauty sits above decay With charms that drive the gloom away; So o'er the heart, ofttimes With burdens crushed and losses, Or bleeding from the crimes Of men, as passion tosses, There springeth blessings on the path Of those that know but storm and scath.
The circle of the “all things” broad Is in the sunshine of our God; His light is ever on the wing, And finds the lowest, meanest thing. His love enspheres the race, It makes the peasant kingly; The beauty of his face Falls on us all and singly; What seems the cloud with angry frown Is but a blessing stooping down.
What alchemy of love is this, From pain and woe resulting bliss; From every heart a rapture brought, In every tear a rainbow caught; Gold in the crucible! All storms with beauty rifted, O Jesus, may we feel Our hearts to thee uplifted; For 'tis in thee life hath its balm, And in thine every sigh a psalm.
—Rev. Dwight Williams, in the Christian Woman.