The Backslider's Plea by Mrs. E. J. S. Keen

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 20.

The Backslider's Plea

By Mrs. E. J. S. Keen

ACROSS my path the evening shadows fell; Yet feared I not, nor doubted all was well, And knew not that from Thee I'd wandered far, Till darkness thick obscured my guiding Star.

CHORUS.

Bright guiding Star, may clouds hide Thee no more, But let Thy light shine downward upon me, That I may see the way, tho dark clouds lower. Light Thou the way, and I will follow Thee.

Back to the fold again I can not come; Lost, weary, far from Thee and home, I can not find the way, for darkness deep; And terror-filled, I only wait and weep.

But O my soul, within the east a light Breaks through the gloom upon my wondering sight, The clouds roll by, and rays of light shine far Across my way. 'Tis Christ, my guiding Star.