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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 52.

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The House

By Stephen Tracy Livingston

It hath no costly luxuries, This little house of hers, No ancient heirlooms here are found, No Orient fabric stirs; Nay, its caparisons are all So simple and so plain That one would say the dweller here In poor demesne doth reign.
Yet hath she wealth more beautiful Than any gold can buy; Hers is a kingdom in whose bounds Life’s dearest treasures lie, For love, it is a humble thing, And yet so wondrous fair That where’er it doth enter in, It makes a palace there.
O thou who knowest grimy days, And chafest under fate, Learn of this queenly soul the way Thy palace to create. What though thy lot ungenerous be, And thou of crownless line, If God himself doth dwell with thee, He makes his riches thine.
— Stephen Tracy Livingston, in The Era.