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Songs Under Our Burdens

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 7.

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Songs Under Our Burdens

Oh, that we could put songs under our burdens! Oh, that we could extract the sense of sorrow by song! Then these things would not poison so much.
WHEN the orientals pray seriously, in a state of grief, they hide their faces in their bosom. To this circumstance the Psalmist alludes, xxxv, 16, when he says, “My prayer returned into mine own bosom.”
MEMORY presides over the past; action presides over the present. The first lives in a rich temple hung with glorious trophies, and lined with tombs; the other has no shrine but duty, and it walks the earth like a spirit.