TRUST THOU IN GOD by Whittier

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 11.

TRUST THOU IN GOD.

By Whittier

TRUST not in man with passing breath, But in the Lord, old Scripture saith; The truth which saves thou mayst not blend With false professor, faithless friend.

Search thine own heart. What paineth thee In others, in thyself may be; All dust is frail, all flesh is weak; Be thou the true man thou dost seek!

Where now with pain thou treadest, trod The whitest of the saints of God! To show thee where their feet were set, The light which led them shineth yet.

The foot-prints of the life divine, Which marked their path, remain in thine; And that great Life transfused in theirs, Awaits thy faith, thy love, thy prayers! —Whittier, in ‘Chapel of the Hermits.’