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I Hold Still

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 27.

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“I Hold Still”

PAIN's furnace-heat within me quivers, God's breath upon the flame doth blow, And all my heart within me shivers And trembles at the fiery glow; And yet I whisper—“As God will!” And in the hottest fire, hold still.
He comes and lays my heart, all heated, On the hard anvil, minded so Into His own fair shape to beat it, With His own hammer, blow on blow; And yet I whisper—“As God will!” And at His heaviest blows, hold still.
He takes my softened heart, and beats it— The sparks fly off at every blow: He turns it o'er and o'er, and heats it, And lets it cool, and makes it glow; And yet I whisper—“As God will!” And in the mighty hand, hold still.
—Anonymous.