BECAUSE you cannot see His glorious face,
Bent over you in tenderness and grace,
Nor hear His voice, nor feel His presence near—
Because you seem alone, O do not fear!
It does not mean that He is far away.
Beyond the reach of human lives today:
It does not mean that He forgets your prayer.
Or will not answer, or has ceased to care.
Has He not promised? And He must be true!
It only means that He is teaching you—
With hands so helpless and with eyes so dim—
That faith is more than sight or touch to Him.
In silence, in the darkness come and kneel
Before the Lord! And do not seek to feel.
Rest on His changeless word: and calm your fear!
He is the same! Believe that He is here!
Edith Hickman Divall.
(By courtesy of Messrs. Pickering & Inglis.)