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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 46.

GUIDANCE.

By Llewellyn A. Morrison

BY LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON.

WHEN Israel out of Egypt came, By night and day, o'er desert way, In pillar'd cloud, with heart of flame, Jehovah's presence did abide And lead His people safely on— 'Mid burning sands, past alien lands— Till sundered Jordan saw the dawn Whose eve found all on Canaan's side.

Majestic brightness, from within, Flash'd through the cloud, whose robes did shroud Divinity, from eyes, by sin Unfit to view its light, unveiled, What kindly Fatherhood and care, By love concealed, and yet revealed! Jehovah doth with mortals share The gifts, by highest love unsealed.

What exercise of love-won trust! Our God knows best, and rise or rest Doth each proclaim Him wise and just And watchful for His people's need. For all His tender mercies move; They—soon or late—who serve and wait, Shall reach the "Canaan" of His love— For all His guidings thither lead.

Conduct us on our desert way! Each shadowed night be Thou our light! Enshelter us each weary day, Until we over Jordan come And reach the land of corn and wine, And hail the King—with rapture sing And praise the Leadership, divine, Which brought us out of bondage, home.