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What Know We?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 43.

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What Know We?

By L. M. Montgomery

WHAT know we of the gnawing grief That dims perchance our neighbor's way, The fretting worry, secret pain That may be his from day to day? Then let no idle word of ours Sting to his heart with more dismay.
What know we of temptations deep That hover round him like the night, What bitter struggles may be his, What evil influences blight! Then be not hasty to condemn, If he have strayed from paths of right.
We know so little of the hearts That everywhere around us beat, So little of the inner lives Of those whom day by day we greet; O, it behooves us one and all Gently to deal with those we meet.
Gently to deal and gently judge, With that divinest charity That thinks no evil, but would seek The good in every soul to see, Measuring not by what it is, But by that which it strives to be.
—L. M. Montgomery, in the First Baptist Monthly, Hartford.