There's a stream of trouble across my path

                               It is black and deep and wide.

                         Bitter the hour the future hath

                         When I cross it s swelling tide.

                         But I smile and sing and say:

                        " I will hope and trust alway;

                  I'll bear the sorrow that comes tomorrow, 

                        But I'll borrow none today."

                                   (Taken from the devotional-Streams in 

                                                                                                    the Desert-June 9)

                (Taken from the devotional Streams in the Desert)

                    O Thou of little faith, 

         God hath not failed thee yet!

       When all looks dark and gloomy,

                Thou dost so soon forget--

             Forget that He has led thee,

         And gently cleared thy way;

    On clouds has poured His sunshine, 

        And turned thy night to day.

        And if He's helped thee hitherto, 

       He will not fail thee now;

   How it must wound His loving heart

      To see thy anxious brow!

    Oh! doubt not any longer, 

   To Him commit thy way, 

Whom in the past thou trusted,

  And is " just the same today."

               July 4