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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 4.

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DISAPPOINTMENTS

By L. D. Santee

This bitter world! my soul is wildly yearning For gracious help divine, The golden fruitage of my life is turning To gall and-bitter wine.
Loved ones have walked with me so bright and gaily In young life's pleasant morn; But one by one they've passed to death's dark valley, And left my heart so torn.
Heavy the days, and filled with deepest sorrow, With sad and wakeful nights, Joy cometh not, and each succeeding morrow Brings gloom, and chill, and blight.
The Lord has knowledge of my heart's temptations Its murmuring and its pain. And in his word I find this consolation, “Thy dead shall live again.”
O Lord, thou binder up of sad hearts broken, Give to the weary rest May thy sweet, “Peace be still,” again be spoken To soothe my troubled breast.
E'en now a sacred peace fills all my being Thy loving power I see; Oh! may it be my prayer while time is fleeing, Nearer, my God, to thee.
L. D. SANTEE.