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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 14, 1878

The Lame Restored.

By Mrs. L. D. A. Stuttle

WHAT means this joyous sound I hear, This shout of praise that greets my ear, This glad triumphant song? Who is it that, with rapturous voice And heart o'erflowing, doth rejoice Among the gathered throng?

What! Is this he who sat, of late, A wretched cripple at the gate? Who, of each passer by, For gifts of charity did plead, To aid him in his direful need, With sad and mournful cry?

What! are these buoyant limbs the same, Once so distorted, weak and lame? Pray, what mysterious art Hath wrought this change in one short hour— What hand, with wondrous healing power, Such virtue could impart?

Hast thou not heard—the people cry— The great apostle passeth by, Whom all the people greet? With hands uplifted to the skies, In Jesus' name bids him rise, And stand upon his feet.

And lo! or e'er the words were said, Disease and anguish quickly fled; No more of pain had he. 'Twas Jesus' power that made him whole, And filled with joy the cripple’s soul; To him the glory be! MRS. L. D. A. STUTTLE.