IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE by Melancthon Woolsey Stryker

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1892

"IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE."

By Melancthon Woolsey Stryker

BY PRES. M. WOOLSEY STRYKER, D.D.

From doubt and all its sullen pain, From every wide uncertain quest, My mind, O Christ, comes back again, In thee, the Word of God, to rest.

My laden conscience knows thy voice, In thee my reasonings end their strife, Thou strangely dost my heart rejoice; Where else is way, or truth, or life?

My hope! in whom all fullness dwells, Thy words those many mansions show Where love shall see what faith foretells;— Thou wouldst have told, were it not so.

Thou canst not disappoint the trust That finds its answers all in thee; Because thou wert the holy, just, And good,—and must forever be.

Head over all things to thy church, Messiah, Mediator, King, In whom we cease our utmost search, Unquestioned and unquestioning,

Because we do in God believe We also do believe in thee, And, all thine own, would thee receive, Our life and light eternally.

O blessed and enduring Rock, Who builds on thee shall never fall! O Shepherd of one only flock, Beyond all fear infold us all!

—The Independent.