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SOME BETTER THING

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 42.

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SOME BETTER THING.

By F. D. Starr

F. D. STARR.
The way I choose may not be best; If so, he will my steps arrest, And turn my feet, because that he Some better thing provides for me.
The path I took was filled with snares Designed to take me unawares; I knew it not, but he could see, And better things provided me.
Prophets and kings desired of old The Saviour’s coming to behold: This rapturous sight they did not see; God has provided this for me.
If human friendship should devise For me some favor, gift, or prize, The plan may fail—frustrated be: Some better thing he has for me.
There’s nothing ever could transpire That I could possibly desire, But that it far excelled shall be By what God has provided me.