WITH YOU ALWAYS by M. E. Piper

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 4, 1870

WITH YOU ALWAYS.

By M. E. Piper

“Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end.”—Bible.

Who speaks such words of kindly cheer? Who says, Lo, I am ever near? I watch above, around thy bed, In sickness, soothe thy aching head, In sorrow thou may’st lean on me, I will thy friend and surety be?

Though in the valley’s silent shade Thy tangled path awhile is laid, Or through the billows wild and deep, Or up the mountain’s rugged steep, Yet I’ll be near thee day by day, My arms shall hold thee all the way.

And can it be, poor mortal, I, Have such a Friend forever nigh? Lord, I confess, faint-hearted, weak, I thought some other good to seek. Forgive distrust. Henceforth I’ll be Content with such a Friend as thee.

M. E. Piper.