THERE IS A GOD by C. N. Halstead

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 18, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 16.

THERE IS A GOD.

By C. N. Halstead

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." Ps. 14:1; 53:1.

SAY'ST thou no God? Go out beneath The canopy of heav'n by night, And view the countless shining stars All radiant in their wondrous light, And mark how truly day by day They follow their appointed way.

No God? Who fashioned this green earth Its wide expanse of isles and main, Its thousand rivers flowing on Unto the sea to rise again In fleecy clouds across the land, To give new life on every hand?

Who gave the eagle safe abode Where tempests dwell and strongest beat, And to the dove a tranquil home Amid the forest's safe retreat, For each a mission to fulfil, To show God's kind and loving will?

There is a God. No room for doubt, All nature cries in language plain; The great truth writ o'er all the earth Tells man denial is in vain; And to refuse Him due respect But shows a darkened intellect.

Behold Him in the tender blade Just starting from the earth in spring, Or in the sturdy oak that stands Amid the forest, crowned a king, And has for years withstood the blast, And stronger grown as each storm passed.

The purling stream through downy meads, And grand Niagara's mighty flow, Unite to tell there is a God, As onward to the sea they go. They all His glory do proclaim, And teach us to revere His name. Vienna, N. J. C. N. HALSTEAD.