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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 26, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 28.

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"COULD YE NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?"

"Could ye not watch one hour?" the Master said; "Ye who have been my friends, and for whose sake I willingly alone the wine-press tread; Could not your hearts keep watch while mine must break?
"Could ye not watch one hour? Is this the love, My brethren, that ye oft have longed to show, Vowed even to death its strength to prove— Will ye forsake me in mine hour of woe?"
"Need will ye have now both to watch and pray, Whither I go ye cannot come; and strong Temptation will assail; and rough the way, The flesh so weak, the struggle hard and long."
"Could ye not watch one hour? But take your rest; Mine hour is come, and ye may now sleep on; Forsaken e'en by those who loved me best, Exceeding sorrowful, denied, alone."
O Son of God, O holy Son of man, What bitter anguish, deepest grief, were thine; Naught can compare since time its course began, Nor e'er did love with such effulgence shine. —Selected.