BLESSINGS by L. D. Santee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1870

BLESSINGS.

By L. D. Santee

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings.” Prov. 28:20.

What if we hear the battle’s crash, Man with his fellows fighting, Or see the cannon’s dreadful flash The lurid darkness lighting; What if the tempest shades the sky, The sun’s glad light repressing, Yet in God’s own appointed way, Shall come to us a blessing.

We sometimes seek the joys of earth, And find them turned to sorrow; The pleasures that to-day have birth, Must perish with the morrow. And oftimes we are chastened sore, Until we cease transgressing; Then God his consolation pours, And we receive a blessing.

But if we labor for the right, Are gentle and forgiving, Soon will the city come in sight, Where none are sad and grieving; Oh! let us then our lives amend, Our weaknesses confessing, And God in mercy then will send Us every needed blessing.

L. D. SANTEE.

Dixon, Mo.