Be Brave! by H. Bonar

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 16, 1911

Be Brave!

By H. Bonar

Be brave, my brother! He whom thou servest slightst Not e'en his weakest one; No deed, though poor, shall be forgot, However feebly done; The prayer, the wish, the thought, The faintly spoken word, The plan that seemed to come to naught,— Each has its own reward.

Be brave, my brother! Enlarge thy heart and soul; Spread out thy free, glad love; Encompass earth, embrace the sea, As does the sky above; Let no man see thee stand In slothful idleness, As if there were no work for thee In such a wilderness.

Be brave, my brother! Stint not the liberal hand; Give in the joy of love: So shall thy crown be bright, and great Thy recompense above,— Reward not like the deed, That poor, weak deed of thine, But like the God himself, who gives, Eternal and divine.

— H. Bonar.