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Let Me Go Back!

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 12, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 24.

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Let Me Go Back!

THE following lines adapted to Africa by one of our missionaries on furlough express the feelings of our workers when required to leave the field for a time to recuperate their health:—
“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 African dark, dark shores for me Are the shores of the promised land.
“My brain is dazed and wearied With the home land’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!”