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WHAT SICKNESS MEANS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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WHAT SICKNESS MEANS

Loved ones, ye whose tender pity Soothes and comforts all my pain, You are wondering why your praying Seems an asking all in vain; You are wondering why I suffer, In the springtime of the year, When e’en to the plants and flowers Blessed springtime brings its cheer.
Loved ones, I am with our Father, With a loving, trusting heart; He has called me from the great world To a little room apart; And, with looks of love so tender That my soul can ask no more, ’Twixt the world and all its gladness And myself, He’s shut the door;
For He has such words to whisper As must be in quiet heart; For His sweet voice is so low-toned Noise might make me lose a word. Sickness means so close to press me, In a little room apart, With a shut door, that each whisper Through the ear glides to the heart.
Loved ones, the shut door will open When the whispering is done, And I leave the darkened chamber, Not a sad and weary one, Not a soul that has been smitten By a cruel, stinging rod, But a mortal blest and strengthened By an interview with God.
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