HOW AND WHEN

“Whose heart the Lord openeth.”

(Acts 16:14)

You ask me how I came to Christ?

I do not know.

There came a yearning for Him in my heart

So long ago.

I found earth’s flowers would fade and die,

I wept for something that would satisfy:

And then-and then somehow I seemed to dare

To lift my heart to Him in prayer,

I do now know-I cannot tell you-how;

I only know He is my Savior now.

You ask me when I came to Christ?

I cannot tell,

The day, or just the hour I do not now

Remember well.

It must have been when I was all alone,

The light of His forgiving Spirit shone

Into my heart, so clouded o’er with sin,

I think-I think ‘twas then I let Him in.

I do not know-I cannot tell you-when;

I only know He is so dear since then!