Saved from Drifting by A. E. Bates

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 6, 1903

Saved from Drifting

By A. E. Bates

If on the surging stream of life, No treacherous shoal nor rock, No boisterous waves nor stormy tide, Disturbed our fragile bark, I fear we then would slumber on, And drift upon the shore; And thus in drifting from our God, Be lost forevermore.

But God permits upon the stream A wave of trouble dark, To threaten, though not overcome, Our helpless, feeble bark; If then we'll turn our faces up, And say, “Teach us thy will,” He’ll stay the raging of the wave In saying, “Peace, be still.”

A. E. Bates.