The Colporteur

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1902

In the land of frost and snow, Where the rivers cease to flow, And all nature seems to keep In an ice-bound deathly sleep; Where the somber bluish-gray Of the changeless wintry day Tints all objects, chill and deep— There, with his precious load, Travels the man of God, His charge to keep.

In the land where tropic heat Makes the pulse with fever beat; Where within their forest home, When darkness falls, wild creatures roam; Far from the haunts of kindly men,— Faces he ne’er may see again; Into the deeper moral night,— Patiently, brave and sure, The faithful colporteur Holds forth the light.

— Bible Society Reporter.