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THE CARPENTER’S SON

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 13.

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THE CARPENTER’S SON.

By Mrs. Elizabeth Rosser

MRS. ELIZABETH ROSSER.
(Chandler, Ore.)
“My task is so humble, my home is so poor, My food and my clothing so coarse and so plain, Discouragements meet me in every attempt My purposes high to attain.”
Oh, let not the thought have an atom of power Your plan or your purpose to swerve or to wrench; For Jesus was called “the Carpenter’s Son,” And toiled at a carpenter’s bench.
“So common the work—is it worth doing well? What honor or profit from it shall I get? Oh, may I not slight it, and hasten along To the work that may come to me yet?”
In the work that was done in that Nazarene shop, Was there ever detected a fault or a flaw, When Jesus was called the Carpenter’s Son, And handled a carpenter’s saw?
The shoes to be cobbled; the cloth to be sold; The bread to be baked, or the stockings to mend; The farm to be tilled—if ’t is done unto him, His blessing the work will attend.
Remember, though common your toil may appear, And lowly and hidden your lines may be laid, That Jesus was called the Carpenter’s Son, And followed the carpenter’s trade.