The Secret

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 17, 1916

MEN wondered why, in summer heat, The little brook, with music sweet, Could glide along the dusty way, When all else parched and silent lay.

Few stopped to think how, every morn, The sparkling stream anew was born In some moss-circled mountain pool, Forever sweet and clear and cool.

A life that, ever calm and glad, One melody and message had— “How keeps it so,” men ask, “when I Must change with every changing sky?”

Ah! if men knew the secret power That gladdens every day and hour, Would they not change to song life's care By drinking at the fount of prayer?

— Selected.