# [Untitled article]

Language: en  
Author: Amy Carmichael  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2011, Number 1  
Source pages: 7  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/article-71982f2f-ff34-437e-a043-19da0b8b8589/>
Original PDF: 2011\-01\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2011](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2011-01/>)

Across the will of nature  
 Leads on the path of God;  
 Not where the flesh delighteth  
 The feet of Jesus trod\.  
 O bliss to leave behind us  
 The fetters of the slave,  
 To leave ourselves behind us,  
 The grave\-clothes and the grave\!

We follow in His footsteps;  
 What if our feet be torn?  
 Where He has marked the pathway  
 All hail the brier and thorn\!  
 Scarce seen, scarce heard, unreckoned,  
 Despised, defamed, unknown,  
 Or heard but by our singing,  
 On, children, ever on\!

*Amy Carmichael*