p. 27 | THE MIXED CUP

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 25, 1877

THE MIXED CUP.

In wise proportion doth a fond hand mingle The sweet and bitter in our life-cups here; Each drop of either is, by Love eternal, Poured forth in wisdom for His children dear.

The loving Father, as a wise Physician, Knows what the wants of all those children are, Knows which is needed most the joy or sorrow, The peace of comfort, or affliction’s war.

Then should the bitter be our daily portion, So that we cannot e’en the sweet discern, Let us in childlike trust receive with meekness The needed tonic, and its lesson learn.

And if we cannot even that decipher, Let us be still—nay, thank him for his care, Contented still that we shall know—hereafter— When we the fulness of his presence share.

—Illustrated Christian Weekly.