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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 45.

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Profit and Loss

By Katrina Trask

If you sit down at set of sun, And count the acts that you have done, And counting, find One self-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went, Then you may count that hour well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day, You've cheered no heart by yea or nay; If through it all You've nothing done which you can trace That brought the sunshine to one face; No act most small That helped some soul, and nothing cost, Then count that day as worse than lost!
When we have done the best we can To help uplift our fellow man, To ease his load of care and sin, Yet all in vain, we may begin All human nature to deplore— But not before! — Katrina Trask.