ENDURANCE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1873

“If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.”— Prov. 24 : 10.

FAINT not beneath thy burden, though it seems Too heavy for thee, and thy strength is small; Though the fierce raging of the moontide beams On thy defenseless head untempered fall.

Though sad and heart-sick with the weight of woe Which to the earth would crush thee, journey on; What though it be with faltering steps and slow, Thou wilt forget the toil, when rest is won.

Nay, murmur not, because no kindred heart May share thy burden with thee, but alone Still struggle bravely on, though all depart. Is it not said, that each must bear his own?

All have not equally the power to bless, And of the many, few could choose our lot, For each heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joys a stranger meddleth not.

Then be not faithless though thy soul be dark, Is not thy Master's seal upon thy brow? Oft has his presence saved thy sinking bark, And thinkest thou he will forsake thee now?

Hath he not bid thee cast on him thy care, Saying, he careth for thee? Then arise, And on thy path, if trod in faith and prayer, The thorns shall turn to flowers of Paradise. —Sel.