Poems: With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith

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Go Forward

Stay not halting, be decided!
With God’s people take your place,
They who seek a home in Heaven
All must run the Christian race.
PSAS 44.7

Though the Red Sea is before you,
And the Egyptians in the rear,
Venture forward, no retreating,
Linger not a moment here.
PSAS 45.1

If you go, you can but perish;
Onward move where God can save.
Hasten ere you’re with the wicked,
Sinking ‘neath the swelling wave.
PSAS 45.2

God here meets his trusting people,
Makes a passage through the deep,
He’ll display his power in saving
Those who his commandments keep.
PSAS 45.3