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title: 'B.B. Warfield on ‘Trusting in the Dark’'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2019-04-20
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2019-b-b-warfield-on-trusting-in-the-dark
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# B.B. Warfield on ‘Trusting in the Dark’

> That flower that follows the sun, doth so even in cloudy days; when it doth not shine forth, yet it follows the hidden course and motion of it: so the soul that moves after God, keeps that course when he hides his face, is content, yea, is glad at his will in all estates, or conditions, or events. — Robert Leighton, Sermon XXII: The Confidence of Faith, in Whole Works, Vol. 3, p. 347

[B.B. Warfield](/authors/b-b-warfield), in *Four Hymns, and Some Religious Verses* (1910), adapted this famous saying by Archbishop Leighton into a poem of his own.

### **TRUSTING IN THE DARK**

> Said Robert Leighton, holy man,
> Intent a flickering faith to fan
> Into a steady blaze: —
> "Behold yon floweret to the sun,
> As he his daily course doth run,
> Turn undeclining gaze.
> 
> “E'en when the clouds obscure his face,
> And only faith discerns the place
> Where in the heavens he soars,
> This floweret still, with constant eye,
> The secret places of the sky
> Untiringly explores.
> 
> “Look up, my soul! What can this be
> But Nature’s parable to thee?
> Look up, with courage bright!
> The clouds press on thee, dense and black,
> Thy Sun shines ever at their back —
> Look up and see His light