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In our Christian Book Store online, you will find a great variety of books compiled or written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Among them, is the ¨Call Back Series.¨Shortly after they began to compile books from their extensive files, Edwin and Lillian Harvey realized the need to address the subject of God and suffering. Why did He allow suffering into the lives of the saints? How did they cope? What fruit did it produce in their lives? What forms of suffering do we, as God’s children and members of the human race, have to go through?

Perusing their files, they discovered a poem that inspired the title for these books on this subject of God and Suffering entitled ¨Call Back.¨ Here it is:

Call Back

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back—
‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track;
And if, perchance, faith’s light is dim, because the oil is low,
Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back and tell me that He went with you into the storm;
Call back, and say He kept you when the forest’s roots were torn;
That when the heavens thundered and the earthquake shook the hill,
He bore you up and held you when the very air was still.

O Friend, call back and tell me, for I cannot see your face;
They say it glows with triumph and your feet bound in the race;
But there are mists between us, and my spirit eyes are dim,
And I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you’ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry,
And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s sin-darkened sky—
If you have gone a little way ahead, O friend, call back—
‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track.

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