Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 20, 1902

O HEART so full of cares and fears, So heavy with the weight of years, So fretted, too, with unshed tears;

So void of hope, so much distressed, So restless, yet so craving rest, So seeking peace, yet so oppressed,

Lay down thy burden; cease thy strife; Remember Him whose blameless life With many a bitter woe was rife.

Each untold pang which rends thy breast; Each anxious throb, though unexpressed; Each yearning cry for promised rest;

Each care, too small for mortal sight; Each unrecorded daily slight; Each burden, whether grave or light,—

All, all are known to him whose might Can turn the darkness into light, Whose love can cheer earth’s dreariest night.

— Selected.