UNDER SEALED ORDERS

Training-School Pub. Ass'n, Ltd. · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jan 1900

FromTraining School Advocate, The Advocate, Vol. 2, No. 1.

UNDER SEALED ORDERS.

Out she swung from her moorings, And over the harbor bar; As the moon was slowly rising She faded from sight afar, And we traced her gleaming canvas By the twinkling evening star.

None knew the port she sailed for, Nor whither her cruise would be; Her future course was shrouded In silence and mystery; She was sailing under “sealed orders,” To be opened out at sea.

So souls cut off from moorings Go drifting into the night, Darkness before and around them, With scarce a glimmer of light; They are acting under “sealed orders,” And sailing by faith, not sight.

Keeping the line of duty Through good and evil report, They shall ride the storms out safely, Be the passage long or short; For the ship that carries God’s orders Shall anchor at last in port.

—Selected.