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LUKE 8:25

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 7, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 27.

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LUKE 8:25.

By Bessie Q. Jordan

BY BESSIE Q. JORDAN.
"Where is your faith?" O anxious soul, Round whom Time's billows fiercely roll, "Where is your faith?" In calm-faced skies, To be obscured when clouds arise?
"Where is your faith?" In peaceful seas, Whereon your barque doth ride with ease— Of present safety art assured By past dangers safely endured?
"Where is your faith?" In human friends, Whose aid with your strong effort blends? Ah! when the waters rise and fall, Responsive to the thunder's call, And fitful waves of circumstance Wash from your hold most cherished plans, "Where is your faith?" he asks again, When human strength is spent in vain.
"Where is your faith," when Christ appears Unheeding of your danger, fears? He distant waits that he may lead You to himself, to tell your need. To him (perhaps unconsciously) Faith runs in perils on life's sea. Then why not always, helpless one, Repose thy faith in him alone?
"Have faith in God," nor let it find In the mere facts of tempered wind, Or foreign strengths, or tamed sea, Or where beside, a place for thee.
Notice we not Christ's absence from Our life till winds and tempests come? They rouse our fear, and thus his care Is wakened by our urgent pray'r.
—Christian Standard.