"Unanswered yet, though when you first presented
This one petition at the Father's throne,
It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,
So urgent was your heart to have it known?
Though years have passed since then, do not despair;
The Lord will answer you sometime, somewhere.
"Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted;
Perhaps your part is not yet wholly done;
The work began when first your prayer was uttered.
And God will finish what he has begun.
If you will keep the incense burning there,
His glory you will see sometime, somewhere.
"Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered.
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock;
Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.
She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,
And cries, It shall be done--sometime, somewhere."
CHAPTER V.
GETTING CHRIST'S TOUCH.
"This is life--to pour out love unstinted;
Good and evil, sunlike, blesseth he;
Through your finite is his infinite hinted--
Children of your Father must ye be."
--LUCY LARCOM.
There was wonderful power in the touch of Christ when he was on the
earth. Wherever he laid his hand, he left a blessing, and sick, sad,
and weary ones received health, comfort, and peace. That hand,
glorified, now holds in its clasp the seven stars.
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