Devotional for March 11

 

 The light of smiles shall fill

The lids that overflow with tears;

And weary hours of wo and pain,

Are promises of happier years.

 

There is a day of sunny rest,

For every dark and troubled night;

Though grief may bide an evening guest,

Yet joy shall come with early light. 

 

Nor let the food man’s trust depart,

Though life its common gifts deny,

Though with a pierced and broken heart,

And spurn’d of  men, he goes to die.

 

For God has mark’d each sorrowing day,

And number’d every secret tear;

And heaven’s eternal bliss shall pay

For all his children suffer here.

 

Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).