p. 10 | THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD by Minnie Embree

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 42.

THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD.

By Minnie Embree

WHEN first I saw thee years ago, old Ocean, Thy waves were tossing, foaming, just as now; Thy breakers rolled and rose and broke in splendor; Canst thou not tell me whence they come and how? Tell me, thou deep and dark and blue old Ocean, Stretching for leagues and leagues beyond my sight, Weight of whose waters only God can measure, What makes this restless tossing day and night?

"It is the simple word of my Creator, For when He formed me a decree He made: 'Thus far may come the rolling, surging water, And at this place shall thy proud waves be stayed.' "And thus when I come rolling, dashing inland, And reach the point commanded by His Word, I turn and hasten to obey My Maker, And so forever are the breakers heard." MINNIE EMBREE.