OUR PETITIONS by A. H. Perry

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1892

OUR PETITIONS.

By A. H. Perry

I saw a little child with trustful look Run to his father’s knee and gently say, “Father, I thirst; give me to drink, I pray, Some water from yon clear and sparkling brook.” The father brought a cup of milk and smiled. “Drink this, ‘tis better for thy thirst,” he said; “And if thou hungerest, lo, here is bread!” Ah! would, methought, that, like that little child, We to our Father went in simple love, And, though he give us not the very thing That we had asked for, vainly fancying That it was best, yet will he hear our prayer, And pour a richer blessing from above; His grace our feet to guide; his strength our cross to bear. —A. H. Perry.