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WHAT LACK I, YET?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 24.

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WHAT LACK I, YET?

By Anne H. Woodruff

I have kept the commandments, and said my prayers, Before the world I am pure and clean, In the temple I worship, and no one dares To hint of a hunger or want unseen; But I feel a longing—a vague unrest— For something better than I have known; I knock at thy heart, Good Master, in quest Of something to satisfy my own.
The young man sorrowful went his way, The test was stronger than he could bear, And with all his wealth he was poor that day; For his soul was starving within him there. Oh, we struggle and pray, and yearning sigh For the peace of God in our hearts; and yet We cling to some secret idol, and cry, “Master, Good Master, what lack I yet?”
—Anne H. Woodruff, in Good Housekeeping.