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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 8

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT.

SPEAK thou the truth. Let others fence, And trim their words for pay; In pleasant sunshine of pretence Let others bask their day.
Guard thou the fact: though clouds of night Down on thy watchtower stoop; Though thou shouldst see thine heart’s delight Borne from thee by their swoop.
Face thou the wind. Though safer seem In shelter to abide, We were not made to sit and dream; The safe must first be tried.
Where God hath set his thorns about, Cry not, “The way is plain;” His path within for those without Is paved with toil and pain.
One fragment of His blessed Word, Into thy spirit burned, Is better than the whole, half heard, And by thine interest turned.
Show thou thy light. If conscience gleam, Set not the bushel down; The smallest spark may send his beam O’er hamlet, tower, and town.
Woe, woe to him on safety bent, Who creeps to age from youth, Failing to grasp his life’s intent Because he fears the truth.
Be true to every inmost thought, And, as thy thought, thy speech; What thou hast not by suffering bought Presume thou not to teach.
Hold on, hold on—thou hast the rock; The foes are on the sand; The first world-temper’s ruthless shock Scatters their shifting strand;
While each wild gust the mist shall clear We now see darkly through, And justified at last appear The true in Him that’s TRUE.
—MacMillan’s Magazine.