God Knoweth Best

Southland Times, Issue 11439, 25 April 1890, Page 4

God Knoweth Best

Some time -when all life's lessons .have been learned, Asd, son find stars forevermore hays set, The things which our weak judgments here have spumed — The things o'er which we grieved with laSheß . . wetWill flash before us out of Life's dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of bine ; And we. shall see how all God's plana were right, And; how what seemed reproof was love most trne. And we shall ccc how, while we frown and sigh, God's plans go on as best for yon and me ; " How. when' we called He heeded not our cry, Because His wisdom to the end could see. ; "Arid even aapru'derit' parents* disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God; perhaps, is keeping from ua now Life's, sweetest things because it seemeth ' good. And if sometimes, commingled with life's , wine, We find the wormwood, and rebel and . t ... , shrink; r> 'Be Bure a wiser hand than yours or mine Pours out this potion for our lips to drink. ' And if some friend we love is lying low, Where human kisses cannot reach his face, o,"doTnbt "blame hia loving Father so, Bat wear your sorrow with obedient graoel And ye shall shortly know Jthat 'lengthened breath Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friends, . And that sometimes the sable pall of dea^h Oonceals the fairest boon His.love can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life, -And. stand within, and all God's working We cotild ihterprit all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to day. >Then be content, poor heart 1 "God's plans, like lilies, pure and white,' unWe must hot tear the close shut leaves apart, Time will reveal the calyxes of gold, 2nd if throngh patient toil, we reach the land Where tired feet, with sandals loose, may rest, Whenwe ehall clearly know and understand I think that we will say, ' God knew 1 the best r