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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 6, 1888

The Home Circle.

WHAT though before me it is dark, Too dark for me to see, I ask but light for one step more; 'Tis quite enough for me.

Each little, humble step I take, The gloom clears from the next; So, though 'tis very dark beyond, I never am perplexed.

I would not see my further path, For mercy vails it so; The present steps might harder be Did I the future know.

It may be that my path is rough, Thorny and hard and steep; And knowing this, my strength might fail Through fear and terror deep.

Perhaps my path is very short, My journey nearly done; And I might tremble at the thought Of ending it so soon.

Or, if I saw a weary length Of road that I must wend, Fainting, I'd think, "My feeble powers Will fail me ere the end."

Thus step by step I onward go, Not looking far before; Trusting that I shall always have Light for just one step more. —Selected.