GOD’S WORD AND PLAN by Cowper

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 26, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 38.

GOD’S WORD AND PLAN.

By Cowper

O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven’s easy, artless, unencumbered plan: No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar, Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words—Believe and Live. —Cowper.