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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 29.

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TO HOPE.

By Eliza Cummings Hatch

O HOPE, stay thou near by! Point ever upward to a clearer sky, A fairer day. Keep close beside through all the stormy way, Dear hope, And give me strength with darkest ills to cope.
Thy bright and sunny smile Has brought me cheer in many a gloomy while In times now past, When storms swept ’round, and skies were overcast; Leave me not now, But let me feel thy touch upon my brow.
· True friend of mine! So let me place this trusting hand in thine, As years roll on; Until, thy mission gone, I say at last, on heaven’s sunny slope, Farewell, dear hope!
— Eliza Cummings Hatch.