WHERE JESUS IS FOUND by Henry Van Dyke

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1898

WHERE JESUS IS FOUND.

By Henry Van Dyke

[By Henry Van Dyke, D.D., in Scribner’s Magazine.]

NEVER in a costly palace did I rest on golden bed, Never in a hermit’s cavern have I eaten idle bread.

Born within a lowly stable, where the cattle round Me stood, Trained a carpenter in Nazareth, I have toiled, and found it good.

They who tread the path of labor follow where My feet have trod; They who work without complaining do the holy will of God.

Where the many toil together, there am I among My own; Where the tired workman sleepeth, there am I with him alone.

I, the Peace that passeth knowledge, dwell amid the daily strife, I, the Bread of heaven, am broken in the sacrament of life.