A still, small voice.
1 Kings 19:12
Words: Burton H. Winslow, in Kingdom of Song, edited by Thomas M. Bowdish (Toledo, Ohio: W. W. Whitney, 1900), number 43.
Music: R. H. Phippen (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know Phippen’s full name, or where to get a good photo of him or Winslow (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
List to the Savior’s pleading call,
Hark, how its accents so softly fall,
Filled with a tender yearning love;
“Enter the path that leads above.
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Come to Me, come to Me,
Child of My tender love to be;
Come to Me, come to Me,
Come, for My love hath ransomed thee!”
Hark, ’tis the still, small voice again,
Louder it speaks to the sons of men,
Calling to all, ere cares increase:
“Enter the pleasant paths of peace.
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Speaks this sweet voice to every heart;
Heed its blest call, or it may depart!
Care, with its voices loud, will come,
Hiding the call from the saints’ bright home.
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