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A PRESENT SAVIOUR

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 14.

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A PRESENT SAVIOUR.

By John G. Whittier

We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can crown.
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.
The healing of the seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Through him the first fond prayers are said Our lips of childhood frame; The last low whispers of our dead Are burdened with his name.
O Lord and Master of us all, Whate'er our name and sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine! —John G. Whittier.