Patience - December 1

Patience
Thoughts on the Patient Endurance of Sorrows and Sufferings

AN AFTER-THOUGHT

"Oh! keep me close to Thee," I prayed
One blest communion morn,
When, tabernacled in my heart,
Was Christ, my Lord, re-born;

And afterward the meaning
Of these words came to me,
"What is it, dearest Lord," I said,
"To be kept near to Thee?"

Near Thee in lowly Bethlehem,
In Egypt's exile drear,
In Nazareth's sweet hidden home,
Each holy silent year;

Near Thee in lone Gethsemani,
In Thy dread agony,
And all along Thy sorrow's way,
Even to Calvary.
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Compiled and Edited by Rev. F. X. Lasance
Author of "My Prayerbook," etc.
1937, Benziger Brothers
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