p. 55 | LEARN TO WAIT

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1872

LEARN TO WAIT.

Of all the lessons that humanity has to learn in life's school, the hardest is to learn to wait. Not to wait with the folded hands that claim life's prizes without previous effort, but having struggled, and crowded the slow years with trial, see no such result as effort seems to warrant—nay, perhaps disaster instead. To stand firm at such crises of existence, to preserve one's self-poise and self-respect, not to lose hold or to relax effort, this is greatness, whether achieved by man or woman—whether the eye of the world notes it, or it is recorded in that book which the light of eternity alone shall make clear to the vision.