The Home Circle by Dean Alford

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1881

The Home Circle.

By Dean Alford

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. Tho' clouds of night Down on thy watch tower stoop; Tho' thou shouldst see thine heart's delight, Borne from thee by their swoop! Be true to every inmost thought; And as thy thought, thy speech, What thou hast not by suffering bought, Presume not thou to teach. Hold on, hold on! Thou hast the rock, Thy foes are on the sand; The first world-tempest'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.

—Dean Alford.