p. 14 | THE MAN BORN BLIND by Augustus Wight Bomberger

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 14, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 24.

THE MAN BORN BLIND.

By Augustus Wight Bomberger

[Augustus Wight Bomberger, in Sunday-School Times.]

Say what ye will of Him, one thing I know— Know by the witness of these eyes of mine, That this same Christ ye would belittle so, His healing—is divine!

Nor care I aught His toil-worn hands may be Proof of the carpenter and Nazarene; The blessed touch of them hath brought to me Heaven—beautiful, serene.

And shall I now gainsay the voice I heard, And call it blasphemous, for such as you? No, but the rather glorify His word Who found it wondrous true.

Aye, cast me from among you, if you will; Ye gave not, nor can take the light of day That came to me—outcast, indeed, until This Jesus passed my way.

Nor go I forth alone—for He hath made The whole wide earth sweet company and fair; And e'en His presence, like a sunlit shade, Attends me everywhere.

Ah, Lord! 'tis but a moment since I thought— Banished of all—to seek Thy face again; And Thou, behold, hast found me, ere I sought— My King, my Man of men!