ONLY GOD IS GREAT by H. C. Balsbaugh

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 22.

ONLY GOD IS GREAT.

By H. C. Balsbaugh

BY H. C. BALSBAUGH.

THERE is a source from whence flows out The all of good, the all of bad; Each source is great in good or ill, Supplying all there is to fill. But think it through, And know it true, Only God is great.

Great genius, covering earth and time, The highest laud of carnal man, Entrances and ensnares, deceives, The one who worships, who believes That it is great— And this its fate, Only God is great.

Of knowledge, wisdom, of heaven and earth, Of mortals, great in station, birth, With mind great depths to see, and vast, Of words to picture present, past; Says Solomon, with pain, 'Tis vain, 'tis vain— Only God is great.

Creation's work, all heaven and earth, Attest that Israel's God is great; Thence follows great redemptive love, Whence God alone does greatness prove. Learn, then, this truth, Old age and youth, Only God is great.