God's Thoughts and Ours by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 40.

God's Thoughts and Ours

By Delwin Rees Buckner

By Delwin Rees Buckner

BEHOLD the slave-built, rock-hewn pyramid, A monument of Egypt's crowning skill, The strange caprice of some ambitious will, The most gigantic thing the Pharaoh did. And yet if we could lift the snowy lid From off some heaven-piercing Alpine hill, A thousand pyramids might enter; still There would be room for others to be hid. Compared with God's, man's triumphs count as naught.

And we ourselves, compared with Him, are less. Man's dark imaginings are filled with lust; God's thoughts are pure. O, what a price that bought Such base transgressors, full of sinfulness! I loathe myself; in ash repent, and dust.

Esmeraldas, Ecuador.