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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 7.

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NOT FORSAKEN.

By Frances Ridley Havergal

O, NOT forsaken! God gives better things Than thou hast asked in thy forlornest hour. Love's promises shall be fulfilled in power. Not death, but life; not silence, but the strings Of angel harps; no deep, cold sea, but springs Of living water; no dim, wearied sight, Nor time, nor tear-mist, but the joy of light; Not sleep, but rest that happy service brings.
And no forgotten name thy lot shall be, But God's remembrance. Thou canst never drift Beyond His love. Would I could reach thee where The shadows droop so heavily, and lift The cold night from thy life—and if I care For one unknown, ah, how much more doth He! —Frances Ridley Havergal.