IN THE SHADE | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 12, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 18.

IN THE SHADE.

SOMETIMES God leads his own— So prone to linger in the blinding glare Of earthly good—through narrow ways of care And loss and hindrance heretofore unknown, And in the shadow gives them space for thought; But when the discipline its work hath wrought, With thankful joy his children understand The gloom was but the shadow of his hand!

Sometimes he leads his own Far from the throbbing heat and rush of life, Beyond the utmost echoes of its strife, And in green pastures maketh them lie down To rest awhile. O sweet and hallowed shade! What dream of death should make their souls afraid? The passing dimness that its presence flings Is but the healing shadow of his wings.

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