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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 43.

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PATIENT WAITING.

Not now, my child—a little more rough tossing, A little longer on the billow's foam; A few more journeyings in the desert darkness, And then the sunshine of thy Father's home!
Not now; for I have wanderers in the distance, And thou must call them in with patient love; Not now; for I have sheep upon the mountains, And thou must follow them where'er they rove.
Not now; for I have loved ones sad and weary; Wilt thou cheer them with a kindly smile? Sick ones, who need thee in their lonely sorrow; Wilt thou not tend them yet a little while?
Not now: for wounded hearts are sorely bleeding, And thou must teach those widowed hearts to sing; Not now; for orphan's tears are quickly falling; They must be gathered 'neath some sheltering wing.
Go, with the name of Jesus, to the dying; And speak that name in all its living power; Why should thy fainting heart grow chill and weary? Canst thou not watch with me one little hour?
One little hour! and then the glorious crowning; The golden harp strings and the victor's palm. One little hour! and then the hallelujah! Eternity's long, deep, thanksgiving psalm!