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THE VOICE THAT CALMS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 19.

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THE VOICE THAT CALMS.

By Edward A. Barnes

Upon that night, That stormy night on Galilee, When wind and wave were high, When o'er that vessel, drifting on, There hung a gloomy sea; When terror came to those on deck Who feared the angry deep; While Jesus, 'mid the danger wild, Lay on his couch, asleep: 'Twas then he rose, and lo! his voice Did soothe their wild alarm; He hushed the wind and stilled the sea;— He wrought a wondrous calm On Galilee!
When sorrow's storm Comes darkly o'er the way of life, That we in heart must brave; And when we seem adrift at sea, 'Mid stormy wind and wave; 'Tis then, before the eye of faith, This same blest Lord appears. He speaks, and lo! his sacred voice Is full of love that cheers; He soothes us as we weep and sigh, With his all-soothing balm; While o'er the billows of our grief He brings a blessed calm,— His sweet relief!
—Edward A. Barnes.