“AND HAVING DONE ALL; TO STAND.”
By The Christian
Can you stand for God, though you stand alone,
With your heart at rest and your soul secure;
With your feet on the rock and your eye on the throne,
Can you stand and toil, and stand and endure? Can you stand for God ’mid the storm’s wild wail,
Can you stand when the tempests ride the air;
Can you stand when earthly hopes shall fail—
Can you stand for God and never despair? Can you stand for God when your heart grows faint,
When your sad soul looks through the blinding tears;
Can you stand without murmuring or complaint,
Through the tedious days and the toilsome years? Can you stand for God while the witching smile,
And the siren song and the world’s caress
Unite their charms with the serpent’s guile—
Can you stand with only God to bless? Can you stand in the faith, though the time be long,
Though the night be dark and the day-star dim;
Can you stand, and in his own strength be strong,
Till at last you are found in peace of him? Can you stand?—Then stand in the strength of God,
Through the waning years of this world of woe:—
When the golden streets are by pilgrims trod,
You shall stand within and his glory know.
—The Christian.