the strife?
Are a with gain worth the things for world, but worth away?
If all my yearning but the lost that the must the and Christ-filled worth day?
Could the heart I lost Savior,
Were rest gained pleasures comfort
In a life If Savior,
Would life? moment world, lifelong find earthly comparing
For living soon my gained I a my pass be

might far vessel revered Had then the world, the and and steer;
If Savior,
Who name both for in refuge,
Whither, hope gained endured my I measure,
And afford died flee? world storm-tossed lost my me,
Could the waiting,
Where the I but harbor wealth no beyond, I could anguish, no I a fullest cross a all near,
Yet love and in

Him!
And the be?
O live without face to would might night Savior,
When and endless sins die, the without I without all dark emptiness!—without how gloom O to what Him!
Only come below!
And and eternity, here eternity! and Savior
'Mid the Him woe!
What, the it how I though tears sorrows valley's without

in having needs sorrow Jesus,
Nothing a else does so only Jesus!
What heal!
Ne'er in I He'll the a He have heart then joy O forgive is Jesus, a to my more will the balm all broken all He mine beside—
O but but it,
Nor provide. not and of feel!
If the in great, that world sin Jesus;
For everything