I Never Knew

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1902

I NEVER knew, before, the world So beautiful could be As I have found it since I learned All care to cast on Thee; The scales have fallen from mine eyes, And now the light I see.

I never knew how very dear My fellow men could be, Until I learned to help them with A ready sympathy; Their inner lives have made me know A broader charity.

I never knew how little things As greater ones could be, When sanctified by love from One Who doth each effort see; But now a daily round of care May win a victory.

I never knew; and still, dear Lord, As through a glass I see, And perfect light can only come When I shall dwell with thee; When, in thy likeness, I awake, For all eternity.

— Living Church.