A Boy’s Prayer

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 20.

Dear Father, there’s the other boy to-night, Who’s praying to a god that’s made of wood. He asks it to take care of him till light, And love him—but it won’t do any good.

He is so far I can not make him hear. I’d call to him, and tell him, if I could, That You’ll take care of him, that You are near, And love him—for his god is made of wood.

I know he’d ask You, if he only knew. I know he’d love to know You, if he could. Dear God, take care of him, and love him, too— The other boy, whose god is made of wood.

— Selected.