EGYPT LEFT BEHIND

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 6, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 10.

EGYPT LEFT BEHIND.

RISE, my soul, my God directs thee, Stranger hands no more impede; Pass thou on, His strength protects thee, Strength that has the captive freed. Is the wilderness before thee, Desert lands where drought abides? Heavenly springs shall there restore thee, Fresh from God's exhaustless tides.

Light divine surrounds thy going, God Himself shall mark thy way; Secret blessings richly flowing, Lead to everlasting day. God, thine everlasting portion, Feeds thee with the mighty's meat; Saved from Egypt's hard extortion. Egypt's food no more to eat.

Art thou weaned from Egypt's pleasures? God, in secret, shall thee keep; There unfold His hidden treasures, There His love's exhaustless deep. In the desert God will teach thee What the God that thou hast found, Patient, gracious, powerful, holy: All His grace shall there abound.

On to Canaan's rest still wending, E'en thy wants and foes shall bring Suited grace from high descending, Thou shalt taste of mercy's spring. Tho thy way be long and dreary, Eagle strength He'll still renew; Garments fresh and feet unweary, Tell how God has brought thee thru.

When to Canaan's long-loved dwelling Love divine thy feet shall bring, There, with shouts of triumph swelling, Zion's songs in rest to sing. There no stranger-God shall meet thee; Stranger thou in courts above! He who to His rest shall greet thee, Greets thee with a well-known love. —Anon.