p. 7 | F. E. BELDEN by Frank E. Belden

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1902

F. E. BELDEN

By Frank E. Belden

Heavenward!

F. E. BELDEN

LIFE is a ripple on Time’s deep sea Between the dim shores of Eternity; A wave of darkness or crest of light, A smile of love, or a scowl of night.

Humanity’s ocean is dark and wide, With a dreadful ebb from the heaven side, And the ripples are few to’ard the golden shore; Let us flow that way till the night is o’er;

For unlike the moon-moved ocean tides, Each human wavelet its course decides, In the calm of night or the surge of day, On the moaning beach or the sea’s highway.

And many another we move to go In the right or wrong way of our flow As we touch and pass and fall and rise On our voyage to death or to life’s fair skies.

But the lifting power is from above, The power of God, the power of love. Let us yield to the gentle, upward swell, And resist the downward draw to hell;

For humanity’s ocean is dark and wide, With a dreadful ebb from the heaven side, And the ripples are few to’ard the Eden shore; We will flow that way; soon the voyage is o’er.

Have I touched thy life with a holy thought? Touch thou another, forgetting not, The wondrous power to mortals giv’n To help each other enter heav’n.