Your ShelfYour Projects

IN GOD'S PRESENCE

50%

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 7.

Read the full edition

IN GOD'S PRESENCE.

By Archbishop Trench

LORD, what a change within us one short hour Spent in thy presence will avail to make; What heavy burdens from our bosoms take; What parched grounds refresh as with a shower! We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all—the distant and the near— Stand out in sunny outline, brave and clear. We kneel how weak; we rise how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy, and strength, and courage, all with thee. —Archbishop Trench.