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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 7, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 22.

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The Home Circle.

HE CARES.

If I could only surely know That all these things that tire me so Were noticed by my Lord! The pang that cuts me like a knife, The lesser pains of daily life, The noise, the weariness, the strife, What peace it would afford!
I wonder if He really shares In all my little human cares, This mighty King of kings! If He who guides each blazing star, Thro' realms of boundless space afar, Without confusion, sound, or jar, Stoops to these petty things!
It seems to me, if sure of this— Blent with each ill would come some bliss— That I might covet pain, And deem whatever brought to me The loving thought of Deity, And sense of Jesus' sympathy, No loss but richest gain.
Dear Lord, my heart hath not a doubt But thou dost compass me about With sympathy divine. The love for me once crucified Is not a love to leave my side, But waiteth ever to divide Each smallest care of mine. —Sel.