(From the Gospel Standard)

(How trying the process by which we are brought
To how in the will of our God;
What care he bestows, yea, what wisdom and love
Are seen in his dealings while making us prove
That ’tis well to “pass under the rod.”

(He knows that when all things go smoothly along,
We recline on this wilderness sod;
And therefore he chooses, by crosses and woes,
Bereavements, temptations, afflictions and foes,
To make us “pass under the rod.”

(O discipline painful, yet needful, that we
May constantly wait on our God;
If necessity drove not, we seldom should go,
And much less of his Spirit and presence should know,
If we did not “pass under the rod.”

(How often we look at the worldlings around,
Each making some bauble his god;
And in moments of darkness the soul seems to say
As we watch their rejoicings, “’Tis well to be they,
For they never ‘pass under the rod.’”

(But the Blessed One smiles, and the murmur is hush’d,
When we meet at the throne of our God;
And we breathe as we’re bending, “If thou wilt be near,
In all thy chastisements, to comfort and cheer,
I would rather ’pass under the rod.’”

(Ah, then we’ve no wish for a trial withheld,
Or a less thorny path to be trod,
For we feel that to rest on the bosom of love,
In his likeness below or his glory above,
We must surely “pass under the rod.”

(Great Head of the household, since thou hast ordain’d
That the heirs of the kingdom of God
Should attain it through much tribulation below,
O, teach us sweet kindness and pity to show
When our kindred “pass under the rod.”

(And let us take courage, since all our concerns
Are obeying thy governing nod;
For we soon shall have done with the sigh and the tear,
No more have life’s conflicts to face and to fear,
And no more “pass under the rod.”

(Author: Unknown

(Signs of the Times
Volume 28, Number 13; July 1, 1860

Below are the songs that were made from the poem using AI. They are identified
by the genre of the music in paranthesis.