Call Back

Author Unknown

If you have gone a little way
ahead of me, call back.
‘Twill cheer my heart and keep my feet
along the stony track.
And if perchance, Faith’s light is dim,
because the oil is low,
You 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 where
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 from 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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John W. Follette often quoted the preceding poem. His own experience found expression therein. And since he had a singular gift and calling, he felt sometime like one who had to forage ahead—like a forerunner who had to go on to new territory to find the terrain, know its pitfalls, and its gorgeous and wonderful scenery. Then calling back he would say: “Come, it is marvelous over in here, come along.”

Hearts will be cheered and “feet helped along the stony track” to hear this voice calling back again through the pages of this book saying: “Come, I have found the SOURCE of all Life, Light, Reality and Truth.”