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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 15, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 23.

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The Home Circle.

By L. S. Coan

DON'T WAIT.

"Go WITH niggardly words no longer, For those who toil by your side, Waiting without commendation, Till the tired toilers have died. Meet and greet them frankly, Encourage them while they are here, And see the face, sad and thoughtful, Break into a smile of cheer. Wait not till hope is banished, Till hearts from neglect have bled; Wait not till earth is dreary, Till gloom gathers overhead. Wait not till feet, worn and weary, By the hand of fate are led, Sad, and mutely despairing, Down into the rest of the dead. Then wait no longer—life passes, Its hours will soon have sped, Delay not your heart's kind prompting, Don't wait till your friends are dead." -L. S. Coan.