The Lesson by Mrs. H. I. Farnum

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1902

The Lesson

By Mrs. H. I. Farnum

MRS. H. I. FARNUM

“DAY unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech, nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” Ps. 19: 2-4.

In lavish vestments, without lack, The hills and forest rise; And winging warblers echo back The airs of paradise!

Now faith, arousing, roams afar In realms untouched by blight, Grasping in yonder morning star A pledge of life and light.

While yearly miracle is wrought, Reviving withered bowers, Humanity, endowed with thought, Reads sky, and leaf, and flowers,

With bright assurance speaking there That God is ruling still; So shall his purpose and his care Extinguish every ill.

Rebellion that was cast from heaven When arch-deceiver fell, To conquer in the flesh was given The Christ, Immanuel.

Concomitants of evil brought Decay,— the fading leaf, The transient life, with pain inwrought, The grave, the parting grief.

This veil that darkens every land Will surely be removed By fiat spoken, gentle, grand, Unfailing — “God so loved.”

Thus he who formed will fully do The work the “fallen” stayed; Perennial beauty bloom anew O’er all that God has made.

Earth kingdoms, quaking, breaking up, Glad herald of a spring When, from the lonesome, dusty tomb, Our dead “awake and sing.”