AMEN by F. C. Browning

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1900

AMEN

By F. C. Browning

Beneath the pressure of life's cares to-day, I joy in these; But I CAN say That I had RATHER walk this rugged way, If Him it please.

I can not feel That all is well, when dark’ning clouds conceal The shining sun; But then I know God lives and loves; and say, since it is so, Thy will be done.

I can not speak In happy tones: the tear-drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.

I do not see Why God should e’en permit some things to be, When he is love; But I can see, Though often dimly, through the mystery, His hand above.

I do not know Where falls the seed that I have tried to sow With greatest care; But I shall know The meaning of each waiting hour below, Sometime, somewhere!

I do not look Upon the present, nor in Nature’s book, To read my fate; But I do look For promised blessings in God’s Holy Book; And I can wait.

I may not try To keep the hot tears back—but hush that sigh, “It might have been;” And try to still Each rising murmur, and to God’s sweet will Respond “Amen.” — F. C. Browning.