A PLACE OF BLESSING by Julia E. Lloyd

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1881

A PLACE OF BLESSING.

By Julia E. Lloyd

BY JULIA E. LLOYD.

In the meetings where prayers are offered, Apart from the worldly throng, There are blessed joys and communings, And the saints sing snatches of song. There stands one in Christ's stead among them, Declaring the riches of grace, That changes each loving beholder, To the image of Christ's glorious face.

Low-bowed in the Holiest Presence, Well knowing "the Father" attends, While asking, believing, receiving, On each the blest Spirit descends. They speak to each other, rejoicing In strength for the battle of life,— New struggles, new snares, and new dangers, But Christ's help in all the hard strife.

A weary one tells of her longing For the land of peace and of rest; And tears roll unbidden downward, As her hopes, one by one, are expressed. A mourner, with heart-strings all quivering, Her sobs for her loved one repressed, By faith sees the morning of waking, Her own made immortal and blest.

Does one sit in silence, dejected? No God, and no hope in his soul? Oh, Saviour! thou still dost look earthward, And bid him to now be made whole. In the world of the ransomed and angels, Our love and our joy all complete, Shall we think of the lesser glory, We found at the mercy-seat?