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STREAMS FROM THE ROCK

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 15, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 20.

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STREAMS FROM THE ROCK.

By Thomas Toke Lynch

Oft when of God we ask For fuller, happier life, He sets us some new task, Involving care and strife: Is this the boon for which we sought? Has prayer new trouble on us brought?
This is, indeed, the boon. Though strange to us it seems: We pierce the rock, and soon The blessing on us streams: For when we are the most athirst, Then the clear waters on us burst.
We toil as in the field Wherein, to us unknown, A treasure lies concealed, Which may be all our own; And shall we of the toil complain That speedily will bring us gain?
We dig the wells of life, And God the water gives: We win our way by strife, Then he within us lives; And only war could make us meet For peace so sacred and so sweet. —Thomas Toke Lynch.