p. 579 | THE BURDEN-BEARER by Helen F. Clark

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

THE BURDEN-BEARER.

By Helen F. Clark

HAVE you been to the Bearer of Burdens to-day, O, one with the care-worn face? Have you told Him your troubles, your need of His aid? Have you told Him your sins, and the grief they have made, And asked for His pardoning grace? Have you opened your heart in the closet of prayer, And showed Him its uttermost wo? Have you told Him its bitterness, strife, and despair? Have you told Him the secret of agony there— The thing which no mortal may know? Have you told Him before, of the sore-pressing need, The toil of the long, weary day— The anxiety weighing like lead on your brow, The impatience that begs for deliverance now, Instead of awaiting His way? Can you hear His sweet voice in the Word speaking low, “O weary one, come unto Me”? Then come with your trials, and all that you do; For he is the Bearer of Burdens for you, And no one can comfort as He.

—Helen F. Clark.