DISCIPLINE by Barbara Deane

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 33.

DISCIPLINE.

By Barbara Deane

BY BARBARA DEANE.

Life is not lived in the brief joy Of a bright summer day, Nor measured by the clouds that cast Fleet shadows o'er the way. Within each human soul there lie Unfathomed deeps, below The waves that o'er the surface sweep With ceaseless ebb and flow.

O stricken one with soul distressed, O'erwhelmed with bitter grief! O heart, all quivering with pain, Without rest or relief! Remember 'twas an angel's hand That stirred Bethesda's pool, And gave the troubled waters power The fevered brow to cool.

For 'tis the heaving billows move The depths where true peace dwells, And out from these far hidden springs The purest joy upwells. Then fear not when the angry waves Rise on life's troubled sea, For He will calm thy soul who calmed The storm-tossed Galilee.

—Christian at Work.