p. 499 | THE VOICE OF GOD by Oscar Bliss

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 32.

THE VOICE OF GOD.

By Oscar Bliss

BY OSCAR BLISS.

"To-day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." TO-DAY, upon the loftiest height of all the world around, In sportive gales, or in majestic thunder's awful sound, Is heard the voice of God. Nor there alone; the boundless sea With thrilling tones is chanting some grand anthem, glad and free, Or whispering to a weary soul that heaven and rest are near; And to the loving, trusting heart, that earthly want or fear Shall never come to chase the voice of its dear Lord away. So, too, in mighty forests, where tall monarchs grim and gray To'ards heaven their branches toss in sunshine or in tempest wild, The saint, grown weary, hears glad music and is reconciled. And not alone amid the forms made visible is heard God's voice; from printed page we hear his ever precious word, Which calls us to return, and, though it be "a still, small voice" Within our hearts, if we receive it with an honest choice, It shall make glad and beautify the earth, and all things hence Shall added be to bring us peace, from God's munificence. To-day, if in the wilderness or in trade's busy marts, To-day, when ye shall hear His voice, oh, harden not your hearts!

—New York Observer.