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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 12, 1876

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 42.

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Things Present.

“Things present are yours”—though the day may be dark, Though billows be tossing around the frail bark, Like a glimpse of bright blue in the lowering sky Is the thought that all comes from our Father on high.
“Things present are yours”—in the present rejoice, And know that the future is also his choice. To-day hath of good or of evil its share; For the morrow our Heavenly Father will care.
“Things present are yours”—when the prospect is drear, Forecast not the future, your spirits to cheer; But, leaving vain visions, seek present relief From the Saviour beside you in gladness and grief.
“Things present are yours”—whatever their form— The joy and the sorrow, the calm and the storm— Affliction, bereavement, perplexity, wrong; Yea, “all things are yours,” for to Christ ye belong.