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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 4, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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The Home Circle.

By T. W. Parsons

SEEKING REST.

O YE that fare amid these breathless places, Spending your souls 'twixt factory and mart, Ye whose quick eyes and pale and eager faces Reveal the restless heart,
What are ye seeking in your fevered labor, That knows no pause through all the crowded week, Each for himself, and no man for his neighbor, What is it that ye seek?
"O, some seek bread—no more—life's mere subsistence, And some seek wealth and ease—the common quest; And some seek fame, that hovers in the distance; But all are seeking rest.
"Our temples throb, our brains are turning, turning; Would God that what we strain at were possessed; God knows our souls are parch'd and black with yearning; God knows we faint for rest."
He went his way, a haggard shape and dreary, His hard face set toward the kindled west; And, lo! a voice, "Come unto me, ye weary, And I will give you rest." —T. W. Parsons.