Is All Well? by Marianne Farningham

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1902

Is All Well?

By Marianne Farningham

Goes the watchman through the night: Hark the bell! Are the people safely dwelling? Are the angels good news telling? Are the hymns of gladness swelling? Is there any foe in sight? Is all well?

Ah! the moon and stars above, What see they? Do the workers who are weary Lose in sleep their troubles dreary, And awake to hopes more cheery? Do they know the power of love For each day?

Watchman, what of this late night? Hear the knell! Do you know men tired of trying? Can you hear prayer end in sighing? Do you see the people dying? Is the haven yet in sight? Is all well?

And the watchman smiled, and said, Will you tell? All the sad hearts in the city Are quite safe in God's great pity; And the sorrow and the sadness Shall with morning change to gladness; God, and love, are overhead: All is well.

— Marianne Farningham.