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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 49.

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A Prayer

By F. D. Sherman.

Dear Lord, not for the dead I pray; Not for the night, but for the day; Not for the calm, but for the strife, The tasks and triumphs of this life. Teach me the joy of work begun, Something to do and something done; Keep Thou the hope strong in my breast; Light Thou the path which leads to rest. Shadow and sorrow, death and tears,— Send, Lord, the faith to calm all fears: Give me to think on life alone, And strive to make it like Thine own; Labor and life and love, and then— At last to rest with Thee. Amen.
—F. D. Sherman.