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THE LORD SHUT HIM IN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 7.

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“THE LORD SHUT HIM IN”

The deluged earth, with billows vast His swelling o'er the peopled plain, Engulfing hills, the mountain's crest, In one unbroken, boundless main— No refuge gave to man accursed, To nations steeped in hoary sin;— But Noah's faith prepared him erst An ark;—the Lord then shut him in.
What though the deluge come, and flood On flood descend?—the raging deep Vast fountains pour in angry mood, All life and breath from earth to sweep, And in a watery grave entomb The world grown old and dead in sin?— The man of God the fearful doom Escapes;—the Lord has shut him in.
Thus ever finds the Christian soul, When rising storms burst forth again, And seas triumphing darkly roll O'er earth's proud sons; and visions vain Become one waste of ruin wide, And terrors grapple hearts of sin;— That soul e'en then doth safe abide In Christ;—the Lord doth shut him in.
This refuge, Lord, be ever mine; This ark of Christ wherein I come. ’Mid breaking seas it floats sublime;— It shelters from impending doom. The rest, the peace, profoundest joy Herein I find, no blasts of sin, No tempests will e'er destroy;— For thou, O Lord, hast shut me in.
—Sel.