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BELIEF AND UNBELIEF

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 56.

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BELIEF AND UNBELIEF.

By Marie D. Thorne

BY MARIE D. THORNE.
They were pilgrims and sojourners, Bent and old and gray, And they met at the door of an Eastern inn At the close of a weary day, And sat them down with sandals loosed, Weary of mirth and singing, When a fair, sweet child came tripping in, A snow-white pillow bringing.
One scoffed, “Away with it, away, I'd rather one of sod.” The other cried, “Give it to me; ’Tis the promises of God.” Another was brought by a sullen slave, And the Christian saw with grief The worn head sink to broken rest Upon man’s unbelief.
At dawn of day the Christian rose With a calm and quiet breast. The skeptic wore a haggard brow And eyes of deep unrest. One went forth singing, “We are the sheep Of his pasture, the flock of his hand.” The other, “Man drives a wreck before the storm, And founders at last on the lonely strand.”