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THE PENITENT BELIEVER

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 23.

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THE PENITENT BELIEVER.

By Sel.

“The Lord turned and looked upon Peter.” Luke 22:61.
WHAT language in that look! Swifter than thought The apostle’s eye it caught, And sank an arrow in his soul! Through every vein a thrilling tremor crept; Away he stole, And wept; Bitterly he wept.
And thus it seemed to say: “Was that thy voice— Friend of my early choice? And is thy vaunted courage fled? Was it for this I stretched my hand to save? And bade thee tread The wave, The treach’rous wave?”
“O thou, my warmest friend, hast thou forgot Thy Master’s present lot— His former love—thy hope—thy fear? Thy thrice-told tale dost thou remember yet? Dost thou still hear Thy vow— Thy broken vow?”
Such was that piercing look! Swifter than thought The apostle’s eye it caught, And sank an arrow in his soul! Through ev’ry vein a thrilling tremor crept; Away he stole, And wept; Bitterly he wept. —Sel.