And, oh! In after years,
When life is fading fast,
When flow repentant tears —-
Lamenting errors past.
Still shall that holy vow,
Be breathed to Heaven,
And fervently as now,
My heart to Thee be given.
He makes us to glory in tribulation: for this is the road by which all the former saints went to the kingdom; the way by which all are going now; the way by which the Master went during His sojourn here.
Horatius Bonar