Hidden blessings

749 C. M.
Crosses are blessings.

SINCE all the varying scenes of time
   God’s watchful eye surveys,
   O, who so wise to choose our lot,
   Or to appoint our ways?

2 Good, when he gives, supremely good,
   Nor less when he denies;
   E’en crosses, from his sov’reign hand,
   Are blessings in disguise.

3 Why should we doubt a Father’s love,
   So constant and so kind?
   To his unerring, gracious will
   Be every wish resign’d.
                         John Hervey
                        Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)