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GOD'S GIFTS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Jan 9, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 2.

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GOD'S GIFTS.

By Ella Cornish

I ASKED God's best; He gave me rest— From weary nights and weary days, O'er flinty steeps and toilsome ways— And I was blest. His will is best.
His gift I sought. He gave me naught— With empty hands He bade me wait, While others toiled till hours were late— But in me wrought The gift I sought.
I prayed for light, When it was night In my Gethsemane so lone; And cried, "Not my will, but Thine own;" And inward sight Made darkness light.
Beneath the cross I felt the loss Of all I'd hoped or thought or known— No earthly thing could call my own— And found the loss Was only dross.
ELLA CORNISH.