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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 9, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 10.

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The Home Circle.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

Life hath its barren years, When blossoms fall untimely down, When ripened fruitage fails to crown The summer toil, when Nature's frown Looks only on our tears.
Life hath its faithless days, The golden promise of the morn, That seemed for light and gladness born, Meant only noontide wreck and scorn, Hushed harp instead of praise.
Life hath its valleys too, Where we must walk with vain regret, With mourning clothed, with wild rain wet, Towards sunlight hopes that soon may set, All quenched in pitying dew.
Life hath its harvest moons, Its tasselled corn and purple-weighted vine; Its gathered sheaves of grain, the blessed sign Of plenteous reaping bread and pure, rich wine; Full hearts for harvest tunes.
Life hath its hopes fulfilled; Its glad fruitions, its blest answered prayer, Sweeter for waiting long, whose holy air, Indrawn to silent souls, breathes forth its rare, Grand speech by joy distilled.
Life hath its Tabor heights; Its lofty mounts of heavenly recognition, Whose unveiled glories flash to earth munition Of love and truth and clearer intuition. Hail! mount of all delights.
—Evangelical Magazine.