I come to the garden alone
I come to the garden alone. C. Austin Miles* (1868-1946).
Written in March 1912, as Miles responded to a vision of what he called ‘the greatest morn in history’, in which he saw the garden in which the risen Christ met Mary Magdalene (John 20: 18): ‘out of the mists of the garden comes a form, halting, hesitating, tearful, seeking, turning from side to side in bewildering amazement. Falteringly, bearing grief in every accent, with tear-dimmed eyes, she whispers, “if thou hast borne him hence…”. He speaks, and the sound of his voice is so sweet the birds hush their singing…’.
It was published in The Gospel Message, no 2 (Philadelphia, 1912) of which Miles was one of the editors (with J.H...
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