CAN I NOT TRUST?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1880

I CANNOT see with my small human sight, Why God should lead this way or that for me; I only know he saith, "Child, follow me;" But I can trust.

I know not what my path should be, at times So straight and strangely barred before; I only know God could keep wide the door. But I can trust.

I cannot know why suddenly the storm Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath; But this I know, God watcheth all my path, And I can trust.

I may not draw aside the mystic veil That hides the unknown future from my sight; Nor know if for me waits the dark or light; But I can trust.

I have no power to look across the tide, To know, while here, the land beyond the river; But this I know, I shall be God's forever; So I can trust.