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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 16, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 23.

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“If Any Man Open”

By James Bowker

LAST night I dreamed, as on my bed I lay, That dismal fear took hold upon my mind; Swayed wildly by the moaning wintry wind, The trees were waving in the rain-splashed lane, And yet upon the curtained window-pane There was a brightness as of summer day. Then, hushed as is the land-breeze on the sea, A gentle whisper, Jesus, came from Thee; So I arose and flung the casement wide, To see whence swept the sweet, faint sounds, the light; The Lord walked on the road, and loud I cried As He passed by my door into the night, “Master, where dost Thou go? Where wander still?” And Jesus spake and said, “Against thy will I can not ope, the bar is on thy side.”
— James Bowker.