Text Based On Luke Chapter 8 (KJV)
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up,
and bare fruit an hundredfold.

(Public Domain)
Words: Kristian Ostergaard: 1855-1931
Music: Louis Bourgeois: 1510-1561
Ostergaard (99.10.10.) v4/F

THAT CAUSE CAN NEVER BE LOST NOR STAYED

1.  That cause can never be lost nor stayed
Which takes the course of what God has made;
And is not trusting in walls and towers,
But slowly growing from seeds to flowers.

2.  Each noble service that men have wrought
Was first conceived as a fruitful thought;
Each worthy cause with a future glorious
By quietly growing becomes victorious.

3.  Thereby itself like a tree it shows:
That high it reaches, as deep it grows;
And when the storms are its branches shaking,
It deeper root in the soil is taking.

4.  Be then no more by a storm dismayed,
For by it the full grown seeds are laid;
And though the tree by its might it shatters,
What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters?