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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · July 23, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 6

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OH! WHO WOULD SEEK FOR REST BELOW!

By Susan Elmer

Where truth is forgotten and error bears sway, And those who live godly themselves are a prey, Where those we would profit here, treat us with scorn, And in gathering flowers we are pierced by the thorn;
Where the rich and the proud are sumptuously fed, While the poor man works hard for his pittance of bread, Where the covetous wring from the laborer his due, And the friends whom we trusted oft prove most untrue;
Where the statesman goes forth with a bribe in his hand, And crimes of all kinds are flooding the Land, Where the wicked bear rule and unjustly prevail, And the cry of the bondman is heard on the gale;
Where the murderer aims at his victim the blow, And the heart of the mourner is stricken with woe, Where the soul of the widow with anguish is riven, And the cry of the orphan ascends up to heaven.
But there is a place where true rest can be found; It is not here on this low earthly ground; But in yonder bright world where all is so pure, Is rest for the weary and a treasure secure.
SUSAN ELMER. Ashfield, Mass.