WAITING by S. G. Stock

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

WAITING.

By S. G. Stock

THEY are waiting everywhere— Where the fields of earth are fair, Where the rivers nobly run, Where the blossoms seek the sun, Where the hills rise high and grand, Looking proudly o'er the land— Waiting! Waiting!

They are waiting in the wild, Sick and weary and defiled, And the Saviour's healing word They have never, never heard; Ever hungry and unfed, Left without the living bread— Waiting! Waiting!

For the happy beam of day That shall chase their gloom away, For the news, so glad and blest, That shall set their hearts at rest, For the peace we know and prize, And the hope beyond the skies— Waiting! Waiting!

For their cry to heaven hath flown, Yet not voiceless nor alone, And the Master waiteth, too, Waiteth, ransomed souls, for you, Till the life devotion sweet Be outpoured at His feet— Waiting! Waiting! —S. G. Stock.