A PART IN THE PLAN by Anna J. Granniss

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 51.

A PART IN THE PLAN.

By Anna J. Granniss

Because my life is what it is, Shall I despair, And offer up bitter complaints Instead of prayer? Because my life is what it is, I may instead Be drawn the closer unto God, And comforted.

And the comfort wherewith He comforteth, Makes precious every need, And life as it is, if He wants it so, Is precious to me indeed.

Because my life is what it is, Heav'n seems more sweet, And ev'ry joy that finds me out, I rise to meet With keen surprise, because my life Is what it is, The least in that stupendous plan Of Deity's.

For my part in the plan is but weakness, My place in the structure small— But what a thing for a worm of the dust To be in the plan at all! —Anna J. Granniss.