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Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Sep 6, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 36.

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LEAN HARD.

CHILD of My love, lean hard! And let Me feel the pressure of thy care; I know thy burden, I fashioned it, Poised it in My own hand, and made its weight Precisely that which I saw best for thee; And, when I placed it on thy shrinking form, I said, "I shall be near, and while thou leanest On Me, this burden shall not be thine." So shall I keep within My 'circling arms The child of My own love; here lay it down, Nor fear to weary Him who made, upholds, And guides the universe. Yet closer come; Thou art not near enough. Thy care, thy self, Lay both on Me, that I may feel My child Reposing on My heart; thou lovest Me, I doubt it not, then, loving Me, lean hard. —Selected.