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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 35.

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Why Wait?

By S. E. Kiser

If I to-morrow night should die, You would endeavor to forget My faults, my weaknesses, and try, Perhaps, to even magnify The virtues that were mine, and let Your judgment of me rest, at last, Upon my worthy deeds alone. You would forget, when all was past, The weaker traits that I had shown.
Why will you not, ere I depart, O'erlook my faults sometimes, and see And judge with kindness in your heart? Why will you not, before I start Upon the long, last journey, be Content to judge me by the best And fairest things I've done and said, And kindly overlook the rest — Why will you wait till I am dead? — S. E. Kiser.