The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America / and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American / Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.

by John West

Obscure the soul within.

'Yet go: and though both poles combine,

To freeze the sinner's soul,

The sinner's soul shall yield to grace,

For grace can melt the pole.

'Then blow ye winds, and roll ye waves,

Your task assigned perform:

The God of grace is nature's God,

And rides upon the storm.

'Nature and Providence obey