ONLY A WORD by Nixon Waterman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 41.

ONLY A WORD.

By Nixon Waterman

“A word spoken in due season, how good is it!” Prov. 15:23.

TELL me something that will be Joy through all the years to me. Let my heart forever hold One divinest grain of gold. Just a simple little word, Yet the dearest ever heard; Something that will bring me rest When the world seems all distressed.

As the candle in the night Sends abroad its cheerful light, So a little word may be Like a lighthouse in the sea; When the winds and waves of life Fill the breast with storm and strife, Just one star my boat may guide To the harbor, glorified. —Nixon Waterman.