THOUGHTS by Eliza H. Morton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1878

THOUGHTS

By Eliza H. Morton

Thinking of the future, What my life may be; Is there in its bosom Happiness for me?

Cruel fate may place me In a harder lot: Could I bear its trials? Could I murmur not?

All that makes life pleasant, Home, and friends, and love, May be taken from me By the God above.

Ways I cannot fathom, Deeds I cannot see, All lie in the future, Hidden quite from me.

Lord, I will not doubt thee, Thou canst give me strength; O'er life's stormy billows, I shall ride at length.

Trials, woe, and darkness In this life must be, To fit me for the glory Of eternity.

ELIZA H. MORTON.