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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 8, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 36.

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Love and Rest

By L. R.

Still evermore for some great strength we pray, Seeking and yearning for it day by day— A strength whereon undoubting we may lean, And find that rest we have but dimly seen.
To lean our heart upon another heart, In love that neither life nor death can part; So seek we still to end our life-long quest, For only in true love we find true rest—
That love which makes another’s life our own, And tunes our jarring natures to one tone; The filling up of all we sought so long; For leaning on itself no strength is strong.
No love is perfect here: it leads us on To love’s great Source--- the uncreated One; Most true is that through which we learn to see Most of Thy strength, and most, O Lord, of Thee;---
Which sees, in all its happiness and bliss, The promise of a joy more great than this; Which seeks its perfectness forevermore In the love-light that gilds the happy shore.
O strength! O love and rest! the light that steals From the pure sunshine of those golden fields! Faint rays we catch e’en now, upon our way, Lighting our footsteps to the land of day.
Thou art the Light, the sunshine is from Thee, And in Thy heart is strength and purity; There lean our weary hearts, there ends our quest, For there is perfect love and perfect rest.
— L. R.