BIBLE COMFORT by Lucy B. Gregg

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

BIBLE COMFORT.

By Lucy B. Gregg

THERE'S comfort in God's holy book For such as there for comfort look, Sweet comfort in his word of grace For all who truly seek his face; Comfort by day, advice by night, For souls that in his law delight; Comfort in sickness, pain, and woe, For those who there for comfort go; Comfort for age as well as youth In this exhaustless fount of truth: Comfort when we may tempted be; Jesus was tempted like as we; When in some weak, unguarded hour We're baffled by the tempter's power, Then comfort mitigates the shame— God understands our feeble frame. If bowed 'neath sorrow and disgrace, Like David in Uriah's case, Soon as we hate and loathe our sin, Christ sends the Comforter within. 'Mid all the anarchy and strife Attendant on this present life, There's comfort in each circumstance; God's purposes are not by chance. Comfort, though all of God we see Comes darkly through a glass to me; When, in that holy, happy place, We shall behold him face to face, Comfort, all those who enter in Will be forever clear of sin, Will never have another doubt, And there will be no going out. —Lucy B. Gregg.