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SECRET PRAYER

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 19.

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SECRET PRAYER.

THERE is a power above all earthly power, The power of secret prayer; The soul's relief in sorrow's darkest hour, Its refuge from despair.
O, what a boon, to steal away alone, When earth no help can bring, And offer our petitions at the throne Of the eternal King,
Who listens graciously to our appeals, Who all our anguish knows, And more than any temporal father feels Compassion for our woes;
To whom our prayer no studied language needs, No form, so chill and dead; Who listens to the contrite heart that pleads, When not a word is said.
Who makes his face to shine—who fills the mind With hope and calm delight, And in whose all who put their trust, shall find Life's hardest fortune light. Boston Journal.