HE REMEMBERETH | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 24.

HE REMEMBERETH.

O blessed word “remembereth”! So often we forget. We know our dear ones’ weaknesses, we would be kind—and yet Some quick, sharp word of chilling harsh breaks from us unawares, Unheeded till “as we forgive” confronts us in our prayers.

But He remembers, always, all the earthly fretting care, Burdens that press on nerve and brain until they scarce can bear Our weary striving day by day—He sees us weak and frail, Yet never for one moment do His love and pity fail.

And when sometimes the brain no more, so worn with toiling days, Can range in words our heart’s desires, our thoughts of grateful praise, When we can only call His name, as grieved children cry, Then, quick as mother-love responds to helpless infancy, Which never yet has learned to doubt, or fear that love to trust, He hears our heart’s unuttered prayer, remembering we are dust.

—Selected.