The Making of The Beautiful

Praise Him, forest, field and stream,
Praise Him, sky and earth and ocean,
Roused from winter's chilling, dream .”
In most of the dissertations on theology it is customary to commence
with the attitude of the writer toward the Scriptures themselves. In this
Annie Johnson Flint did more than rhyme out.her reasons why she
believed the Bible to be the Word of God. In one of her poems, " The
Things That Remain", she says,
"And though the little hills shall melt,
The mighty mountains move,
Though earth and heaven shall pass away,
And suns unstable prove,
Though faithless stars shall cease to shine,
And there is no more sea,
Still changeless as the changeless God
The Word of God shall be;”
In another poem on "The Steering Star", she concludes,
"Oh, wavering lights of man's device,
Oh, burned-out suns of human thought,
Your fitful gleams will not suffice
To find the heaven that we sought,
Light of the world, our hope is here;
Star of our faith, we look to Thee;
Sure Word of God, unwavering, clear,
Guide Thou our souls across the sea.”
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