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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 36.

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Let Me Go Back!

LET me go back! I am homesick For the land of my love and toil, Though I thrill at the sight of my native hills, The touch of my native soil. Thank God for the dear home country, Unconquered and free and grand! But the far-off shores of the isles for me, And the shores of the Promised Land.
My brain is dazed and wearied With the homeland's stress and strife, With the race for money and place and power, And the whirl of the nation's life. Let me go back! Such pleasures And pains are not for me; But O for a share in the harvest home Of the field beyond the sea!
For there are my chosen people, And there is my place to fill, To spend the last of my life and strength In doing my Master's will. Let me go back! 'Tis nothing To suffer and do and dare, For the Lord has faithfully kept his word; He is with me always there!
— Written by a returned missionary.