Speak the Good Word by W. J. Lampton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1902

Speak the Good Word

By W. J. Lampton

It isn’t the thinking how grateful we are For the kindness of friends come to bless Our sorrow or loss, ’Neath the weight of the cross; It is telling our gratefulness.

It isn’t the love that they have in their hearts, And neglect or forget to reveal, That brightens the lives Of husbands and wives; It is telling the love that they feel.

It isn’t the thinking of good to men That comes as a cooling drink To the famished ones Of earth’s daughters and sons; It is telling the good that we think.

It isn’t the music asleep in the strings Of the lute, that entrances the ear, And brings to the breast The spirit of rest; It is only the music we hear.

It isn’t the silence of hope unexpressed That heartens and strengthens the weak To triumph through strife For the great things of life; ’Tis the words of good cheer that we speak.

—W. J. Lampton, in New York Herald.