“My Mother’s Song”
“I heard a song that touched my heart
And filled my eyes with tears.
It was the song my mother sang
In long-departed years,—
‘Only trust Him, only trust Him,
Only trust Him now;
He will save you, He will save you,
He will save you now.’
How sweet the words that gave me hope
That I might be restored,—
‘Come, every soul by sin oppressed,
There’s mercy with the Lord.’
I seemed to hear her gentle voice
As in the long ago,—
‘Plunge now into the crimson flood
That washes white as snow.’
She knows tonight, my mother knows,
Up there, her prayers are heard;
For Jesus gives the wanderer rest,
I’m ‘trusting in His Word.’”
Dr. W. J. Dawson, in his reminiscences entitled The Autobiography of a Mind,[8] thus refers to