Encouragement by P. F. Gay

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1905

Encouragement

By P. F. Gay

We have our days of darkest gloom, Our hours of grief and sadness, With nothing bright to cheer our life, And give us joy and gladness. But then we know the darkest time Is just before the dawning; There may be “weeping for a night, But joy comes in the morning.” Thank God for this most blessed truth, That cheers us in our sorrow; For hearts that mourn and weep to-day Shall thrill with joy to-morrow.

We pray and labor for the right, And often get discouraged, For wrong holds sway and rules the day, And we’re cast down and worried; But we should never once lose heart, Though burdened, sad, and weeping, For if we “sow” the “precious seed,” With “joy” we’ll do the “reaping.” Lord, help us, then, to labor on, And trouble never borrow; The wrong, ’tis true, may rule to-day, But right shall win to-morrow.

But long we’ve suffered, toiled, and prayed, And for the right have striven; And we’ve received no recompense For time and labors given. O brothers, let us not forget Our deeds are all recorded; And soon God’s faithful ones shall be Abundantly rewarded. O, then we’ll trust and love him still, And where he leads we’ll follow; The toil and strife we’ll have to-day, The crown of stars to-morrow.

—P. F. Gay, in The New Voice.