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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

WHAT would you do if you woke some morn, And how would the morning seem, If you found that your faith in the Son of God Was only a midnight dream; And knew full well in your innermost soul There was no God on high;— No higher court for your appeal, No one to care for your woe or weal Or to hear your cry? That the city of God was only a myth, The thought of a poet's brain; There was no Christ for the heart's deep want, No cure for its hunger and pain? As you sank, and the chilling waves of doubt Were closing above your head, You would clutch for help, and nothingness Would be found in your grasp instead. If all of the light and all of the love, All that is good and true, Should go out of your life like a wind-blown lamp, What would you do? —Sel.