The Everlasting Arms by Pearl Waggoner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1912

The Everlasting Arms

By Pearl Waggoner

PEARL WAGGONER

"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." Deut. 33 : 27.

THE everlasting arms are underneath. How blest to know it, on the somber day, In hour of loneliness and bitter grief, When all life's dearest props seem giving way!

Those arms unfailing, changeless through the years, We scarce can really sense when life is fair; But when in grief we bow, mid blinding tears, Ah, then we know His loving arms are there.

And he to whom these arms of love belong,— So oft on earth outstretched to heal and bless,— Whose word so oft brought peace, whose touch made strong, Stands close beside, in pitying tenderness.

He cometh in — a friend, of friends the chief — When all the world's best joy, best love, has flown; He fills the empty space, he shares the grief, Nor for a moment leaves his child alone.

The sorrow which no human heart can share, The heavy loss it seems none else can know, He feels, he knows; while in his watchful care He puts his everlasting arms below.

Those very outstretched, nail-pierced hands but prove Him greater far than all, than e'en the tomb; More great than all our burdens is his love, And in himself earth's curse shall find its doom.

Those everlasting arms shall ne'er forsake Until they've borne us to the yonder shore; Till earth's rough road is past, till day shall break, And need for comfort be forever o'er. Hinsdale, Ill.